Healthy Home Assessments in Walled Lake

The homes of Walled Lake

Small lake city whose big-band resort era still defines its identity, named for the mysterious boulder wall beneath its waters. On the record: Home of the Walled Lake Casino, one of the Midwest's storied big-band dance halls from 1919 to 1968. Some 7,110 residents occupy about 3,324 households. The Walled Lake Casino dance hall opened in the early-to-mid 1920s and the Walled Lake Amusement Park opened on Memorial Day 1929.

The building stock

Of units counted in 2023, 36.6% are detached single-family homes and 60.5% of occupied units are owner-occupied. Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher come to 31.9%. The record of building starts around 1833, so the assessment reads an older envelope. A local landmark: Historical markers commemorate the Walled Lake Casino and the amusement park era.

Walled Lake is close, and water nearby lifts seasonal humidity, so basement moisture and condensation lead the visit.

Named places in Walled Lake:

• Walled Lake Casino and Amusement Park site. Lakeside resort from 1919 to 1968 whose dance hall drew Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, and up to a thousand dancers a night.
• The 'Flying Dragon' coaster site. Fred Pierce's roller coaster at the 1929 grand opening of Walled Lake Park, reputed to be the best of his more than 27 coasters.
• The underwater 'wall'. Roughly 200-foot line of boulders off the northeast shore, marked by buoys and the source of settler Walter Hewitt's 1825 name.
• Mercer Beach. City beach on land once the Mercer family's private shore, purchased by the city and opened as a park in 2000.
• Walled Lake waters. Lake shared with neighboring Novi, busy with boaters steering clear of the buoy-marked boulder wall.

Where the addresses are

Addresses fall in 48390 and 48391. Stevie Wonder performed at the Walled Lake Casino as a youth before it burned.