Detroit’s Historic Bishop Mansion Finally Sells! But for How Much?
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Step inside the Bishop Mansion, Detroit’s largest private residence, recently sold to a prominent family, and discover its rich history, architectural brilliance, and untapped potential. Built between 1925 and 1928 in the prestigious Palmer Woods neighborhood, this 33,000-square-foot Tudor Revival masterpiece was a symbol of Detroit’s Golden Age. Once home to Detroit’s Catholic bishops, including Bishop Michael J. Gallagher, and later owned by NBA star John Salley, the mansion has witnessed decades of faith, glamour, and ambition.
With stunning features like Pewabic tiles, Sicilian marble columns, oak paneling, and a sprawling ballroom, this home’s craftsmanship and design are unmatched. After a $2.5 million purchase in 2017, restoration began, but tragedy struck, leaving the transformation unfinished. In 2024, the mansion was sold off market, after failing to sell both on market and at auction. The sale is setting the stage for a new chapter in its storied life.
Join me as I explore the current state of the mansion, reflect on its historic legacy, and share my dream for its restored glory. This is more than a house; it’s a piece of Detroit’s past, ready to shape its future.
Would you take on the challenge of restoring a home like this? Share your thoughts in the comments, and don’t forget to like, subscribe, and share for more historic home tours and stories!
If you’re able to translate any of the scriptures found throughout the home or have insights about anything you noticed during the tour, I’d love to hear from you! Feel free to share your knowledge in the comments. A special thanks to Paul Wolfert with Moving MI for providing us with an exclusive inside look at this incredible property. His full walkthrough tour is linked at the end of this video.
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In Galveston Texas the Gresham Castle was given to the Diocese and it became The Bishop's Palace along Broadway. One of the top 100 buildings in the USA.
Thank you for sharing that info. We’ll do some digging and maybe we put together a video on that one as well. Thanks for watching!
@@Historylovescompany You're welcome. The docents at the Galveston Bishop's Palace are very helpful with any info. They're getting ready to replace rooftop gargoyles which were destroyed by a hurricane decades ago. 🐲🐲
GLAD to know it’s been purchased… and hopefully THIS time the renovation will be completed up to the standards that it had when originally built and be enjoyed for MANY DECADES by it’s NEW OWNERS as a SINGLE FAMILY MANSION No bed and breakfast as I don’t think that would be allowed in that community
Homes like this you don't over modernize it, you got to keep it correct to the period as possible. It should have been left alone as it was. I remember when it was listed as delinquent at the treasurer's office. It had a tax bill due of 17,000 and it was almost in tax foreclosure about 3 years ago. Taking out the leaded glass windows was a big mistake.
I completely agree. Unfortunately, it’s already been gutted and much of its history has already been lost. 😞
I’ve been in the home what was done was appropriate for the most part only the basic leaded glass was replaced with very high end wood framed double pained windows. All the historic stained glass windows were kept. In a home of this size it makes sense. It’ll be completed the right way. Very excited to see what is coming. Much of the updates and areas gutted were already replaced in the 70s so much of those areas made sense to update.
This video is amazing and extremely interesting loved looking at that old mansion!
Your to kind. I watched it! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas 😆🎄 I do appreciate it. I get stereotyped often but I swear I’m a nice guy 😆
@@Historylovescompany you did a terrific job on the video .
@jkxelor1295 you're too
This house is a monument to an old Catholic world. That mansion was built with the 5-cent contributions of Catholic laundresses and housekeepers. And you know what? They would have been HAPPY that their bishop lived in that mansion. But Catholics have come a long way since then........
I would HOPE SO. I'm an Atheist but we both know for fact that ANY CROOK, I mean "televangelist" would spend millions on it and suck all the money out of his sheeple to do so.
It wasn't bought with Catholic housekeepers money. One of the auto manufacturer millionaire bought it for the bishop. One of the Fisher brothers.
@@sopwithsnoopy8779 That said, it remains for many a scandal that the bishops lived in such opulence while hardworking people, including laundresses and housekeepers, were asked to contribute to the Church. But that was the thinking in those days.
@@fredphilippi8388 STILL is today. Just look at any REVOLTING MEGA CHURCH “pastor” or tv “evangelist” 🤮🤬💩
@@sopwithsnoopy8779 I’m quite sure it was a group effort between at least 5 of the brothers. It’d absolutely be recorded history if only one of them paid for the house all by himself. 🤯
It's worth (pardon the pun) a drive by because it looks massive from the street.
Zillow says it sold for $400,000. Property Tax and maintenance is a liability. But I would have bought it and moved into the guest house, finish what needs to be finished and rent it out for weddings and other large group occasions. It would require grounds man, cooking staff and maids. Hard to believe it sold so cheap.
We’re making a video on that right now actually. It should be finished tonight.
It's not a single-family residence. It's a 'religious' residence - a monster difference. I hope they do it justice. Thank You! Great video.
It’s a masterpiece. Hopefully it’s treated as such. Thank you for watching. You rock!!
Beautiful
On another note it’s good to see it’s being renovated ( in my opinion ) it looks more like a CHURCH building than a residential home which is understandable considering it’s history … I’m sure there neighbors are happy it’s FINALLY been sold too !
It’ll be exciting to see how it plays out. I’ll try to keep everyone informed as I find out any new information about the sale.
Cool story. I remember seeing that plane in not so good of shape
It's difficult to concentrate beyond the earrings and eyebrows.
That’s okay, we don’t need people who make comments like that in this community 😉
I heard Judge Smails from Bushwood bought it . He just liked the way it looked .
I’m unaware of the buyer. Do you mean judge smalls from Bloomfield? If so “he’s” a she. 😆
@@Historylovescompany Smails from Bushwood . The Country Club .
My apologies we have a local judge smalls and I completely misread your comment 😆
@@Historylovescompany He hired a guy named Carl to clean up the pool . He wants the whole thing cleaned , scrubbed and sanitized . Then he wants him to go to work on the lawn . But first he wants him to get all the wax build up off his golf shoes cuz he has a 9;30 tee time with Dr. Beeper and the Bishop . And the Scotts have got a new guest for him to meet named Czervick that built their condo in Palm Beach . Busy day . That place has Bushwood all over it . Ha Ha .
Could this guys narration And voice be ANY MORE ANNOYING
I mean you didn’t have to watch it 🤷♂️
I’m thinking the same thing, can hardly get through it.
They should turn that home into a museum. Who would want to live there??
It's the house of all houses!
Hoping for a tasteful restoration 🤞
I wish sellers would post more realistic prices. I would have paid more than $1 million for this house, but not 9. Their loss.
Honestly, until I see the sales price I’m not sure I believe the rumors that it went for 1million.
Didn’t this guy announce monster truck shows? (SUNDAY…SUNDAY…SUNDAY…). 😆
Man, I wish 😆
Whoa. I've never heard of this mansion.
It’s absolutely incredible. Do you happen to be from Michigan?
Sounds like he is reading a real estate listing from a teleprompter
Huh
I luv what/ how he talks
#DetroitAPPRECIATION💓
#HAPPY121524🎄🎀
A MILLION DOLLARS??
WOW. That's got to be a typo. I was thinking at least 10m. Even with the restoration work.
One million dollars...........sounds like "free"........somebody got a free mansion lol
Rumor has it around the neighborhood that the property sold for approximately $1 million. While the exact purchase price has not been disclosed, it’s known that the property failed to sell at auction last summer.
John salleys old house?
That’s correct. He owned it for a few years.
Um, I'm sorry, but John Sally paid a million for the house around the corner from the Bishop Mansion that's VERY similar. If he bought the Bishop Mansion, that's not the house he lived in. We are neighbors and ALL know which house was Sally's and this wasn't it. (2nd largest in Palmer Woods)
@njmartin6461 i literally just watch a pod cast with Sally on it talking about his purchase of THIS house for 500k. He sold it for 900k and that owner sold it for 2 mil.
@@njmartin6461 type in "john Sally talks about buying 52 room mansion" he specifically says it's the bishop mansion and he bought it for 500k. Ya capper lol
Loooong time independent Professional Photographer here in the metro Detroit who's veryyyy familiar with this castle and Sherwood Forest/Palmer Woods for all my life now. If it's true that it sold recently, I'd be ASTOUNDED. It needs MULTI MILLIONSSSSSSS of dollars worth of historically CORRECT restoration and renovation but that will never happen. It'll be "MODERNIZED".......or more correctly, ruined by someone/a group of people who know absolutely nothing about correctly restoring this once grand, historic English Tudor giant. The photos used are from the listing however some well intended and hopefully well received words to you Chris.....while your passion for it is fun and I share it for sure, BIG time, you'll want to minus all the generic stock clips you've used here of glittering historic scenes. They distract from the house itself and, sorry, are overblown.....even if the house is saved, however well or badly, it's not going to become a hub of multi-million-and-billionaires hobnobbing over caviar and pheasant under glass as if it were 1924. The house was entirely too huge and grandiose for the original Bishop Gallagher who was honestly embarrassed to live in it but it was a different world back then. The Fisher Brothers were drunk on their collective fortunes and built it as if they were going to live in it. Anyway, sorry to be so long winded but everything I posted is fact. Also, the house cannot be broken into even 5K square foot luxury condos because the neighborhood is STRICTLY and only zoned for single family residential.....not multifamily. Don't mean to be a Debbie Downer, but it's impossible to believe that this gargantua will be renovated into a single family home and lived in by the same. However, it's good to hear it was bought!😎
Thank you for sharing that additional information with us. I’ll take your critique into consideration.
That has to be one of the most overblown self serving things I have ever read. The original poster did a great job on his video and provided a lot of wonderful information. You on the other hand just provided a bunch of bloviating puffery.
@ The fact that you think so shows, intractably, that you know utterly nothing about the house or correct, historic RESTOration, not renovation. Or it’s history. Stick to not commenting on what you don’t know anything about. I was polite and respectful to the videos creator.
@@greeneyedwarlock882 I guarantee you I know more about not only restoring correctly and historically architecturally correct buildings and their systems but also the fittings, the furnishings, and anything in or outside of them. I was commenting about your arrogance, not about historically restoring the house. It appears in this case that your arrogance exceeds your ignorance. The man doing the video did a nice job of it kept it interesting, not saying anything about historically restoring the house.
Apparently you feel you need to keep up the John Conyers tradition of bloviation.
Restore, not modernize
So much has been lost already though.
@@Historylovescompany It may not be perfect but photographs and building materials produced the same way would go a long way.
@@nordoflobsquipple3121 A wonderful dream but sorry......literally impossible. Even the cost of historically and correctly restoring just ONE medium sized room in this house is astronomical. Every square foot of this castle was custom designed and finished out by hand close 100 years ago.
So why did they decamp. For how much and to whom?
The details have not been officially disclosed yet, but the video highlights rumors and hearsay shared by the neighbors.
So much for the vow of poverty
Diocesan clergy do not take a vow of poverty. Only religious Orders. A regular priest can be a Billionaire without a problem.
You think the Pope owns the Vatican?
Are you purposely talking that way?
No conflict of interest there
No not at all 😆
Can't finish listening due to the way you're narrating. That can't be how you speak.
I do my best to bring energy to the video. 😉
@Historylovescompany yea, not doing it for me boss. I'm just one guy though.
I agree, it was like listening to fingernails scratching a blackboard.
@@Historylovescompany I would rather hear cats copulating.
Cursed!!!
Tell us more. 🤩
Get someone else to narrate please! This dude is annoying!!!
Maybe we’re not for you then 🤷♂️