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Woodlawn Park Residential Area

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1920–present. Roughly bounded by E. Court and Beard sts., Linwood Ave., and Woodlawn and Burroughs parks

In the 1920s the automobile industry's explosive growth placed intense pressure on housing. Woodlawn Park was promoted by private developers to house the industry's managers, as well as other Flint professionals. Platted as early as 1911, but not developed until further platted in 1923, the neighborhood was touted as an “exclusive development” of custom-built, brick and half-timbered homes. Two parks added to the area's appeal. Woodlawn Park, donated to the city by J. Dallas and Marcia Webb Dort, and Burroughs Park, donated by J. Edington and Louise H. Burroughs, still attract residents of the 50-acre, 115-home neighborhood and help maintain its status as an attractive place to live.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Kathryn Bishop Eckert
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What's Nearby

Woodside Church (First Baptist Church/United Church of Christ)
Applewood (Charles Stewart Mott and Ruth Rawlings Mott Estate)
Capitol Theater Building
Flint Elks Lodge Building
University Pavilion of University of Michigan–Flint (Waterstreet Pavilion)

Citation

Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Woodlawn Park Residential Area", [Flint, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-GS9.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Michigan

Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 335-335.

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