Palmer University
Generally known as Palmer Park, the northern area includes the Detroit Golf Club and neighborhoods which surround the main campus of the University of Detroit Mercy: Pilgrim Village; Palmer Park Apartment Building Historic District; and the Palmer Woods Historic District. Adjacent to the neighborhood is Palmer Park, which covers 140 acres. The neighborhood consists of stately apartment buildings as well as single-family homes.
Palmer Woods is located on the west side of Detroit. It is bordered by 7 Mile Road, 8 Mile Road, Woodward Avenue, and the Sherwood Forest neighborhood. Lots are large, with ample room for trees, play equipment, and a good expanse of grass. This is one of the few upper-middle-class havens within Detroit proper, home to physicians, academics, business owners, artists, executives and their families. The neighborhood is known for its large brick and stone homes, set back from the street behind contiguous uninterrupted lawns. Some are decidedly unglamorous, while others can only be glimpsed behind screening hedges and trees. A few of the larger properties boast additional cottages or guest houses, usually sequestered away from the road. Here, the residential streets often curve rather than running straight, meeting up in oddly shaped intersections.
Sherwood Forest, made up of mostly Tudor Revival homes, lies just to the west of Palmer Woods. Brick and stone houses, some of them attractive behemoths, march along elm-lined streets with names like Stratford and Shrewsbury. Most of these stately homes probably boast at least four bedrooms and more than 3000 square feet. The houses are large, but the lots are not so huge by comparison--as if the land parcels were planned with an eye to maximizing tax revenues, perhaps. Most of these homes probably boast at least four or five bedrooms and more than 3000 square feet. The side-by-side variations on fake 'Old English' majesty create a picture-perfect impression of American Dream affluence. Well-landscaped yards predominate, with the sort of grass that's trimmed by hired help rather than a neighbor's teenager.
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