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Detroit-Indian Village - Fully furnished large
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About Indian Village
Indian Village is a historic neighborhood located on Detroit's east side.
It has a number of architecturally-significant homes built in the early 20th
century. A number of the houses have been substantially restored, and many
others well kept up, allowing the area to avoid much of the blight and decay
that has characterized other historic subdivisions in the city. The neighborhood
consists of several long blocks of the three streets of Seminole, Iroquois, and
Burns.
Many of the homes were built by prominent architects such as Albert Kahn, Louis
Kamper and William Stratton for some of the area's most prominent citizens such
as Edsel Ford. A lot of homes are very large, with some over 12,000 square feet
(1,100 m). Many have a carriage house, with some of those being larger than an
average suburban home. Some of the houses also have large amounts of Pewabic
Pottery tiles.
The area is in the middle of a large urban city and the relatively affluent
homes are a target for petty theft. This keeps the property values low compared
to what houses of similar size, construction, and condition in nearby wealthy
areas such as Grosse Pointe would be worth. As of 2005, for houses between 3,000
and 12,000 square feet (300 and 1,100 m), houses are typically offered for sale
from $200,000 to $1,000,000. Comparable houses in Grosse Pointe could be worth
from 2 to 10 times that much. Population: 1,627 Racial Breakdown White: (33%)
Black: (62.9%) Native American: (0.3%) Asian: (0.4%) Other: (0.6%) Multiracial:
(2.5%) Latino: (1.4%)