A walk around My Neighborhood (Heritage Hill, Grand Rapids, MI)
 

This is the neighborhood in which I Live, the Heritage Hill neighborhood just south and east of Downtown G R.
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It was America's first historic residential neighborhood, Created in the 1970's.

link: http://www.heritagehillweb.org/justthe.htm

There are a mix of styles of homes and socioeconomic backgrounds here....

On With the tour....

An English Tudor style house
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a lot of wood and weathered brick in this home
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Columns and up for sale, any takers?
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This house has facinated me for its rather garish color scheme. (I Recently spoke with its owner and she said that that wonderful mix of colors will be going away soon:sad: )
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Hey, Look up there...
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I do believe it is an Owl
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well time to go back home for now... A mansion that was built in 1885, subdivided into apartments in the 1920's, Madison Manor
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There'll be more posted later, if you like, including a castle and a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Your pictures remind me a lot of Oak Park, outside of Chicago.

http://www.trails.com/tcatalog_trail...lid=XFA013-014

I kind of like the 'garish' colors. Too much beiges and grays in life as it is...

That beige brick house reminds me of places around southern Ontario. The character and charm of old houses is quite beautiful.

Reminds me of Halifax. Hey... since when was there something wrong with having colour in our neighbourhoods?

I visited Grand Rapids a number of years ago to visit some very old family friends--they came over on the boat with my grandparents, and their son was my dad's playmate on the trip here from the Netherlands. It was really surreal, because a lot of major things there are named after the Van Andel family--my grandpa's stepdad's family. But we enjoyed the chance to see a lot of the old homes in the area, which is something my entire family enjoys. Thank you for sharing these pictures--it reminds me of my trip there.

mmm ive seen the paint in the "garish" colors like that. not tha style in particular but in a style called a "painted lady" - blah - faulty memory - cant remember what the show was about but it was old victorian homes.

nice little neighborhood you have there Chris.

Nice shots. I am a huge fan of old homes. The vibrant colors are great.

Looks like a beautiful neighborhood to live in.

The May house, Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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I was thinking it would be nice to see the inside as well. I love google.

http://www.peterbeers.net/interests/.../may_house.htm

It's a beautiful house.

And they do give tours. PM me and i'll get you the info.

More pics to come.

Don't sweat it... I don't think I have a trip to Michigan anytime in the near future. :)

A house designed by a protege of FLW, just a block from the May house:
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