Fair Lane

Dearborn, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Fair Lane, the former estate of Henry Ford and his wife Clara Bryant Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, sprawls across 1,300 acres along the River Rouge. Completed in 1915, the limestone residence blends Scottish baronial and Prairie School architectural styles through the collaborative work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Marion Mahory Griffin, and Joseph Nathaniel French. Beyond the main house, the expansive grounds originally encompassed an electrical power plant built on a dammed section of the river, greenhouse, boathouse, riding stables, children's playhouse, and treehouse, alongside landmark gardens designed by landscape architect Jens Jensen. Named after an area in Cork, Ireland, where Ford's adoptive grandfather was born, the estate now operates as a house museum and historical landscape open to the public, designated a National Historic Landmark with portions of the grounds preserved as a university nature study area.

Architect

Joseph Nathaniel French Marion Mahony Griffin Frank Lloyd Wright

Movement

Scottish baronial architecture Prairie School architecture

Built: 1915
Type: house
Heritage: National Register of Historic Places listed place, National Historic Landmark
Place: Dearborn, United States

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Location

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