East Ferry Avenue Historic District

The East Ferry Avenue Historic District is a historic residential district in Detroit, Michigan. The nationally-designated historic district stretches two blocks from Woodward Avenue east to Brush; the locally-designated historic district includes a third block between Brush and Beaubien. The district includes the separately-designated Col. Frank J. Hecker House and the Charles Lang Freer House. The district was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1976 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. In 1856, the Ferry Seed Company was founded in Detroit; they established a large farm was at the corner of East Ferry and Woodward to grow the seeds that were sold nationwide. (Although no longer in Detroit, the...