Healthy Home Assessments in Grosse Pointe

The homes of Grosse Pointe

One-square-mile lakefront city on Lake St. Clair, incorporated as a village in 1880 and a city in 1934, whose Kercheval district serves as downtown for all five Grosse Pointes. Also noted: Home of The Village, the central downtown shopping district for all five Grosse Pointe communities. Roughly 5,232 residents live across about 2,120 households. The name is French for "large point, " referring to the point of land extending into Lake St. Clair.

What the numbers say

Census five-year estimates through 2023 put 68.4% of housing units in detached single-family homes and 84.2% of occupied units with their owners. Bachelor's attainment among adults is 74.5%. The record of building starts around 1930, so the assessment reads an older envelope. One landmark on the ground here: Punch and Judy Theatre at 17 Kercheval in neighboring Grosse Pointe Farms, opened January 1930 under patronage of Edsel Ford and other magnates, designed by architect Robert O. Derrick.

Near Lake St the humidity picture shifts, which puts basement moisture, condensation and drainage first.

Around Grosse Pointe:

• The Village. Three-block Kercheval Avenue retail district from Neff to Cadieux, considered by locals the central downtown for all five Grosse Pointes.
• Ralph Harmon Booth House. One of the historic mansions in the residential blocks south of Kercheval.
• Grosse Pointe Unitarian Church. The only church within the one-square-mile city, on Maumee near Neff.
• Neff Park. Residents-only lakefront park on Lake St. Clair with a 160-slip marina, pool, playgrounds, volleyball, and winter ice skating.
• George Elworthy Field. City park with tennis and pickleball courts, sports fields, and playgrounds.

Corners of the map

The 48230 ZIP code covers these addresses. The Ford House was built in an English Cotswold village aesthetic sometimes called "Storybook Style, " with steep roofs, prominent gables and limestone masonry meant to look like a centuries-old manor.