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William Voigt, Jr. is thought to have designed this house as a summer home in the early 1900s. In 1889, his parents, who ran a butchering business, purchased the property for $1,850. French settler Joseph Tremble had been granted the land by President James Madison in 1811, and Paul Trombley later held title to the site. Voigt, Jr., a city engineer who owned The Home Brewing Co. and had studied architecture in Germany, served on the Detroit Board of Education from 1887 to 1893, where he helped strengthen the compulsory education law and introduce physical culture into school programs. He also supported free textbooks for students and, as board president in 1889, argued that public schools were the foundation of American government and a measure of American patriotism. In 1907, his sister Christine and her husband Herman Kreit, D.D.S., received the home by deed. Dr. Kreit later became a trustee and president of the Village of Grosse Pointe Park, and Christine taught German and science at the Liggett School from 1882 to 1900. The home remained in the family until 1969.
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