Healthy Home Assessments in Mount Clemens

Mount Clemens, house by house

Mount Clemens is the Macomb County seat, a city of 15,697 residents at the 2020 census on the Clinton River about three miles west of Lake St. Clair. One local marker: Nicknamed "Bath City" for a mineral bath industry that ran from 1873 to 1974, peaked at 11 bathhouses, and drew visitors including Clark Gable, Mae West, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and William Randolph Hearst. Those residents occupy about 6,893 households. The Mount Clemens Sugar Company processed sugar beets from about 1898 to 1950.

How the housing sits

Of units counted in 2023, 63.4% are detached single-family homes and 61.5% of occupied units are owner-occupied. Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher come to 17.8%. The record of building starts around 1869, so the assessment reads an older envelope. A local landmark: Selfridge Field, established in 1917 just outside the city in adjacent Harrison Township, one of the nation's oldest continuously operating military air installations.

With detached stock at 63.4%, the walkthrough establishes the building type first and reads the air handling against it.

What stands in Mount Clemens:

• Anton Art Center. Occupies the 1904 Carnegie-financed library building and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
• Crocker House Museum & Gardens. Macomb County Historical Society operates the 1869 house as a local history museum with exhibits on the city's mineral bath era.
• Michigan Transit Museum. Occupies the former Grand Trunk depot where Thomas Edison learned telegraphy from the station agent in 1862, a building listed on the National Register in 1981.
• Shadyside Park. Heavily wooded 41.6 acre park with a splash pad, skateboarding area, fishing pier, and boat and canoe launch.
• Memorial Park. 40.9 acre park with eight ball diamonds, a picnic pavilion, in-line skating court, and playground equipment.

Streets and settlements

Mount Clemens also contains one named district, Downtown Mount Clemens. Downtown Mount Clemens: Downtown business district supported by a Downtown Development Authority established in April 1983. Mail runs through the 48043 and 48046 ZIP codes. In August 1862 a 15-year-old Thomas Edison snatched toddler Jimmie MacKenzie from the path of a rolling boxcar at the Mount Clemens depot; the boy's grateful father, station agent J.U. MacKenzie, taught Edison telegraphy, the skill that launched his career.