Edsel and Eleanor Ford House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House is a mansion located at 1100 Lake Shore Drive in Grosse Pointe Shores, northeast of Detroit, Michigan; it stands on the site known as "Gaukler Point", on the shore of Lake St. The house became the new residence of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford family in 1928.”
Wikipedia article Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Macomb County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Ford, Edsel and Eleanor, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1100 Lakeshore Rd., St. Clair & Grosse Pointe Shores, 48236
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. building
City. Village of Grosse Pointe Shores city
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
Architect. Albert Kahn
National Register reference number. 79001164 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

43 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Edsel and Eleanor Ford House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Debris and open burning	7
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0034344 - 2019
11 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EASTPOINTE FIRE/RESCUE 0003704 - 2019
9 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	EASTPOINTE FIRE/RESCUE 3373 - 2020
9 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR SHORES FD 4796 - 2019
30 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR SHORES FD 0005454 - 2018
13 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0028947 - 2019
12 August 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	DETROIT FD 0028740 - 2019
10 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	ST CLAIR SHORES FD 4819 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Macomb County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Edsel and Eleanor Ford House: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Salt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Port Huron Salt Co.	Salt	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Macomb County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Erin-Warren Fractional District No. 2 Schoolhouse	4.6 miles	2001
	Warren Township District No. 4 School	5.9 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001164 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Macomb County	All 15 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.