2901-03
Michigan
Townhome Gut Rehab–Two Units
Tower Grove East Neighborhood
2005 Homer
Award Winner for
Outstanding Adaptive/Historic Renovation
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HISTORY: The Severin Family Home and
Store
In July of 1909 a building permit
was issued to Joseph Severin to build a two-story brick store
and tenement at a cost of $8,000. The structures were designed
by architect Wenzel J. Janisch and the iron storefront was manufactured
by The Union Iron and Foundry Company. In September of that same
year another building permit was issued to add a one-story brick
bake shop at a cost of $1,000 and in July of 1910 there was an
addition to the tenement. The Severin family lived at 2901 Michigan
and
rented out 2903
to two different families.
This corner storefront, the part
that was originally a bake shop, was also a butcher shop
and from 1930 through the mid-1970s, a grocery store.
The shop proprietor usually
lived
above the business. The living quarters next door at 2903,
housed several different working-class residents over the years
including bartenders, factory
workers, laborers and sales people.
This project is funded in part by a grant from
the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Community
Development Agency under the Provisions of Title 1 of the Housing
and Community Development Act 1974 (P.L. 93-838).
This project is funded in part by a grant from the Department
of Housing and Urban Development and the Community Development
Agency under the Provisions of Title 1 of the Housing and Community
Development Act 1974 (P.L. 93-838).
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