Brick houses on large lots, with some mansions on the lakeshore.
What Grosse Pointe Park looks like
Grosse Pointe Park sits on the shore of Lake St. Clair, on a standard grid of streets. Housing runs from tightly packed single- and multi-family brick houses on the west side to traditionally styled single-family homes that generally average over 3,000 square feet. Many of the houses were built before World War II.
People often divide the Park at Jefferson Avenue, and the south side is generally called Windmill Pointe. and streets such as Bishop, Kensington, Yorkshire and Devonshire each have dozens of large homes on large lots. Jefferson itself is a divided boulevard with a welcome monument in its median.
sits at the tip of the point, where Lake St. Clair meets the Detroit River. The park there has a pool and a gym. It is for residents only. At the foot of Three Mile Drive, has a skating rink and walking trails.
At the top of the range are multimillion-dollar mansions, some on the lakeshore. The west side is mixed-use, with retail, schools and churches within close walking distance. The Cabbage Patch is generally taken to be the northwest corner. Mack, Wayburn, Jefferson and Somerset bound it. It has multi-family houses, in contrast to the single-family homes on larger lots that fill most of the Grosse Pointes.
Among the civic buildings, is a two-story brick building with a green roof. is a three-story brick school with light stone trim. The library and the fire and police building are brick as well.
Shot in Grosse Pointe Park
The 2008 film Gran Torino opens with a funeral at St. Ambrose church, and a confessional scene was filmed there too. The film is set in Highland Park, but the church is in Grosse Pointe Park.
Gran Torino, 2008
Played Highland Park, Michigan, present day
The funeral that opens the film was shot in the church, and a confessional scene was filmed there too. Inside, the nave runs under a vaulted ceiling, with stained glass windows along the walls.
Indian Village has Tudor Revival and Colonial Revival houses, the same styles as the Tudor house at 15420 Windmill Pointe Drive and the Buck-Wardwell House on Jefferson Avenue. Indian Village's largest house is about 15,000 square feet, so frame one Park house at a time rather than a whole street. Try searching Tudor Revival houses now.
Boston-Edison's Tudor revival houses sit on spacious lots and were mostly built between 1905 and 1925. The Park's large homes on Windmill Pointe Drive are close in scale. Jefferson Avenue's divided boulevard and its welcome monument give the Park away in a wide shot, so keep the frame to the house line and the lawns. Try searching Tudor revival houses on lawns now.
