File:Ransom Gillis House, Alfred Street and John R Street, Brush Park, Midtown, Detroit, MI - 53014251000.jpg

English: Built in 1876, this eclectic Queen Anne and Venetian Gothic Revival-style house was designed by Henry T. Brush and George D. Mason for Ransom Gillis, a wholesale dry goods merchant, who lived there until 1880. The building was subsequently sold to several different wealthy families, and later became a boarding house after 1919, and the carriage house became home to Pewbaic Pottery in 1903, later becoming home to an auto repair shop and filling station before being demolished in 1935 and replaced by a restaurant, which was later demolished when the house was stabilized in 2005-2006. The house had a one-story retail shopfront added to the southwest corner in the 1930s as well, which was also removed during the stabilization work. The house became vacant as Detroit rapidly declined in the 1960s during the civil unrest that rocked the city and much of the population migrated to the outer neighborhoods and suburbs. The house thereafter went into steep and steady decline, eventually having the roof and corner turret collapse before it was stabilized in 2005-2006, which involved the City of Detroit restoring the roof and tower, boarding up the windows, and repointing and stabilizing the brick exterior walls. The house features a red brick exterior, corner turret with a conical tower on a column and stone base with several gothic arched windows separated by pillars, bracketed cornices, a hipped slate roof with cresting and a front gable, stone trim, one-over-one windows, decorative brick chimneys, patterned brickwork, a rough-hewn stone base, a gothic arched bay on the front gable with a quatrefoil window, a one-story bay window on the front facade, porches with clustered columns and rosettes, and a simple gabled rear ell. The house is a contributing structure in the Woodward East Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and was rehabilitated by Nicole Curtis in an episode of the TV show Rehab Addict in 2015, which converted the house into two townhouses, which feature a mix of salvaged historic elements and contemporary flourishes.