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Photograph of Henry Ford Square House
Photograph by Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Henry Ford Square House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Henry Ford Square House is a single-family house located at 29835 Beechwood Avenue in Garden City, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”

Wikipedia article Henry Ford Square House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 396 National Register listings published here for Wayne County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Ford, Henry, Square House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 29835 Beechwood Ave., Garden City, 48135
  • When was it listed? November 1980
  • Category. building
  • City. Garden City city
  • National Register reference number. 80001932 - 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

51 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Henry Ford Square House between 2018 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 7 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 use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural7
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
25 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINKSTER FD 193611 - 2019
9 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesROMULUS FD 0003182 - 2019
16 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 196293 - 2019
15 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 196253 - 2019
14 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 0007061 - 2019
9 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesWESTLAND FD 0001177 - 2018
9 July 2018Smoking1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesLIVONIA FIRE/RESCUE 5880 - 2018
6 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesINKSTER FD 192205 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Henry Ford Square House: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mijal PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ford Clay PitClayProducer
Lightweight Aggregate Corp PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this property

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden City, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2000Thunderstorm WindGarden City$60,000no account filed
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGarden City$25,000The City of Inkster had several trees knock down by the strong winds.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGarden City$15,000A large tree limb fell through the roof of a home.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden City$10,000Trees and powerlines reported down.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindGarden City$10,000A newspaper reported that a large tree blew over onto a car in thunderstorm winds. The paper also reported numerous tree limbs and power lines down.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGarden City$2,000Trees and wires reported down.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGarden City$2,000Trees and wires reported down.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindGarden City$2,000Trees and wires reported down.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGarden City$500Gas station sign blown out.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Large trees limbs reported down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Tree limbs up to 8 inches in diameter reported down.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Six inch diameter tree limbs reported down.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Large tree limbs and power lines reported down.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindGarden City-A six inch diameter tree blimb was reported blown down.
July 2011HailGarden City-no account filed
July 1998HailGarden City-no account filed
July 1997Thunderstorm WindGarden City-no account filed
July 1997HailGarden City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Wilson Barn2.6 miles1973
Norwayne Historic District2.7 miles2013
Rosedale Gardens Historic District2.8 miles2010
Malcolm X House3.6 miles2021
Annapolis Park Historic District3.9 miles2006
Dearborn Country Club4.4 miles2025

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80001932 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wayne CountyAll 396 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.