Edsel and Eleanor Ford House – china Spatial Grid Structure – Prefab Building CS
History
Construction on the house began in 1926, after the Fords traveled with Kahn to England. There, they were attracted to the vernacular architecture of the Cotswolds and asked Kahn to design a house that would look like the closely assembled village cottages typical of the region. Kahn design included sandstone exterior walls, a traditional slate roof, with slates decreasing in size as they reach its peak, and moss and ivy grown across the house exterior.
While construction of the house itself took only one year, two were spent fitting it with wood paneling and fireplaces brought from English houses; interior fittings were in the hands of Charles Roberson, an expert in adapting old paneling and fittings to American interiors. The Gallery, the largest room in the house, is paneled with sixteenth-century oak linenfold paneling and a hooded chimneypiece from Wollaston Hall in Worcestershire, England; the timber-framed house had been demolished in 1925 and its dismantled fittings were in process of being dispersed. Fourteenth century stained-glass window medallions were added to the house in the late 1930s. Roberson’s barrel-vaulted ceiling for the Gallery was modeled on one at Boughton Malherbe, Kent. Paneling and doors in the Dining Room, entirely devoid of electricity, came from New Place, Upminster, a victim of the twentieth-century expansion of London. The Library’s paneling and its stone chimneypiece came from the Brudenell seat, Deene Park, Northamptonshire. The Study has a wooden overmantel with the date 1585, from Heronden Hall, Kent.
Other interesting design elements include kitchen counters made of sterling silver, a “secret” photographic darkroom behind a panel of Mr. Ford’s office, and Art Deco rooms designed by Walter Dorwin Teague, a leading industrial designer of the 1930s. Teague first floor odern Room features indirect lighting, taupe leather wall panels and a curved niche with eighteen vertical mirrored sections. He also designed bedrooms and sitting rooms for all three of Edsel and Eleanor sons. Teague design for Henry Ford II bathroom includes grey glass walls made of the same structural glass as its shower stall.
The house featured an extensive art collection, reflecting Edsel and Eleanor status as serious museum benefactors. After Mrs. Ford death, many important works were donated to the Detroit Institute of Arts. Reproductions were hung in their place. The French-styled Drawing Room features two original Paul Cezanne paintings and reproductions of Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas works. A reproduction of Vincent van Gogh’s The Postman Roulin hangs in the Morning Room. An original Diego Rivera, Cactus on the Plains, hangs in the Modern Room.
The grounds of the house include a power house and a gate house along affluent Lake Shore Drive, often mistaken for the actual house. It includes apartments formerly used by staff and an eight-car garage with a turntable to rotate cars so they don need to back out. The Recreation House beyond the man-made lagoon and swimming pool contains changing rooms and a squash court with spectator gallery. Closer to the gate house is Josephine Ford child-sized playhouse, built for her by Clara Ford in 1930. It features working electricity and plumbing and an exterior decorated with characters from nursery rhymes.
See also
Ford Family Tree
Notes
^ “Edsel and Eleanor Ford House”. National Park Service. http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/detroit/d2.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
^ Bridenstine, James (1989). Edsel and Eleanor Ford House. Wayne State University Press. Pp. 12-13
^ Sources of interiors at Meadow Brook Farm are drawn from John Harris, Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages 2007:213.
^ Bridenstine, Pg. 13
^ Harris 2007 documents the source in a Roberson brochure, p 213 and figs. 225-26.
^ Harris suggests that this already once removed paneling had come from another Brudenell seat
^ Harris 2007.
^ Bridenstine, Pg. 48
^ Bridenstine, Pg. 68
^ Bridenstine, Pg. 23
^ Bridenstine, Pg. 45
^ Bridenstein, Pg. 45
^ a b Bridenstine, Pg. 81
^ Bridenstine, Pgs. 80-82
References and further reading
A&E with Richard Guy Wilson, Ph.D.,(2000). “America’s Castles: The Auto Baron Estates,” A&E Television Network.
Bak, Richard (2003). Henry and Edsel: The Creation of the Ford Empire. Wiley ISBN 0471234877
Bridenstine, James (1989). Edsel and Eleanor Ford House. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0814321615.
Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher (2002). AIA Detroit: The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-3120-3.
Meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C.P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A.I.A. (1980). Detroit Architecture A.I.A. Guide Revised Edition. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 0-8143-1651-4.
External links
Edsel Ford biography
Edsel & Eleanor Ford House
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