October 14, 1980
(Site #80001933)
39040 W. Seven Mile Rd., Livonia
This irregularly massed Queen Anne features a broad porch and a circular turret. It is likely the design
of the house was selected from a house plan book; a similar house plan can be found in Herbert C.
Chivers’ Artistic Homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March 24, 1972
(Site #72000672)
38125 Base Line Rd., Livonia
Greenmead Farms was originally the farm of Joshua Simmons, who moved to the property in 1825.
The farm includes the 1829 North Barn (the first barn built in Livonia) and an 1841 Greek Revival
farmhouse. Additional structures, including four mid-19th-century farmhouses, have been moved to
the property as the surrounding area has been developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
July 19, 2010
(Site #10000478)
Arden St. to Hubbard St. between Plymouth Rd. and West Chicago St., Livonia
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Rosedale Gardens was platted by the Shelden Land Company in the 1920s. The company modeled the
development on Rosedale Park in Detroit. The first wood-sided houses were built in 1925. When the
Great Depression hit, construction stopped for a time; the developer bricked over existing homes, and
continued with brick construction when building resumed later in the 1930s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
December 12, 1973
(Site #73000962)
NE corner of Middlebelt and W. Chicago Rds., Livonia
This barn was originally constructed by Ira Wilson in 1888; in 1919 the barn burned and he built the
present structure on the foundations of the earlier barn. Wilson eventually established a million-dollar
dairy, creamery, and trucking business, the Ira Wilson & Sons Dairy, and served for two terms as
Wayne County sheriff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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