#RealEstatePorn: An 8 Bedroom Mansion With a Ballroom For $500K? (There’s A Catch…)

This is the first offering of this historic mansion in 70 Yrs on this landmark built for automaker B. Everitt and later bought by C. Grinnell, this English Manor-style house has 3 Full floors of living space above a finished lower level. This urban palace of 8800 square feet has 8 bedrooms, 6 full & 2 half baths. The main floor has a gigantic living room with a carved limestone fireplace, a large oak-paneled dining room, a tiled sunroom with another limestone fireplace, and a paneled library with yet another fireplace and a hidden bar. The vintage kitchen area includes a butler’s pantry with a dumbwaiter and the original pink refrigeration room. The grand entry hall is repeated upstairs with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. The marble staircase leads the the lower level with a large ballroom, billiard’s room with a bar and a children’s playroom with a vintage mural of the house and its neighbors. Plus, there’s a full apartment above the 3-car garage. It needs to be updated and restored but what a deal at $499,000! The catch? It’s in Detroit. But unlike some “deals” in Detroit, it’s in the posh, East Boston-Arden Park area. This is a $30 million house in the Hamptons… with the difference you can start a community center and buy a jet. Go for it!