George V.N. Lothrop house in Grosse Pointe, in 1948
Description:
House almost hidden by surrounding trees. Handwritten on back: "215 Lake Shore Rd., Lothrop, Built by George V.N. Lothrop in 1847, the second earliest summer home to be built by a Detroit business man in Grosse Pointe. Mr. Lothrop (for biography see Farmer's 'History of Detroit') was a prominent Detroit lawyer, U.S. minister to Russia 1885-8. The house stood originally at the north-east corner of Private Claim 231, the farm of Commodore Alexander Grant. About 1920 two-thirds of the Lothrop lake frontage was sold to John Dodge of Dodge Bros., and the Lothrop house was moved about three hundred feet toward Detroit. The house was occuplied by members of the Lothrop family for one hundred years, its last occupant being Mrs. Cyrus Lothrop, widow of G.V.N. Lothrop's youngest son. She died in 1947. This picture was taken in 1948. The house was torn down in 1949."
