Taliaferro, Thomas W. and Margaret, House

The 1925 Taliaferro House meets national register criterion B as the home of Thomas W. Taliaferro, president of the Detroit meat-packing firm, Hammond, Standish & Co., from 1922 until his death in 1940 and a nationally recognized leader in the meat-packing industry. The house meets criterion Cas a distinguished Arts-and-Crafts-influenced English cottage home in the Detroit area context and as an example of the as yet little known work of Detroit architects Mildner & Eisen.

The Taliaferro House is a two and-a-half-story building of Tudor and Arts-and-Crafts design standing on a low, largely wooded hilltop site on a 3.7-acre lot in Trowbridge Farms, an early residential subdivision in Bloomfield Hills. The house has an asymmetrical, broadly T-shaped form, a combination of gable and hip roofs, and exterior walls clad in stucco with red brick and limestone trim and wood shingled dormers. A cross-gable-roof three-bay garage is aligned with the house's main axis and separated from the house by a gable-roof porte cochere.