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Your local unreliable narrator.
I drive the car, I take the picture, I post the history.
All photos are my own unless #vintage 📸
I also share my wife's magnificent artwork✨💃🏻
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Dondante (b.1914)
Freedom Township, Washtenaw County Michigan.

#photography #architecture #dutchcolonial #autumn #sunset #farms #scape #oldbuildings #houses #lightroom #rural #freedomtwp #washtenaw #michigan

A typical white Dutch Colonial style house in the countryside. The sun sets with a blue and purplish hue over a mostly cloudy sky.

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Christmas At Ground Zero (b.1900)
Williamston, Ingham County Michigan.

#photography #night #nightphotography #architecture #victorian #gabledell #brick #oldbuildings #houses #historic #holidays #lightroom #village #stockbridge #ingham #michigan

A festive streetlight illuminates a brick house on Grand River Avenue.

November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM

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Hamburgerphobia (b.1890)
Stockbridge, Ingham County Michigan.

#photography #night #nightphotography #architecture #victorian #gothic #gothicrevival #oldbuildings #houses #historic #horror #lightroom #village #stockbridge #ingham #michigan

An ornamented Victorian house with two center-gabled roofs.

November 26, 2025 at 8:51 AM

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Stop! (b.1910)
Stockbridge, Ingham County Michigan.

#photography #night #nightphotography #architecture #victorian #gothic #gothicrevival #oldbuildings #houses #historic #lightroom #village #stockbridge #ingham #michigan

A Gothic Revival style house with a covered porch.

November 26, 2025 at 5:59 AM

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St Joseph Catholic Parish (f.1840) (b.1875)
Dexter, Washtenaw County Michigan.

The largest building in the village.

#photography #night #nightphotography #autumn #architecture #gothic #gothicrevival #brick #oldbuildings #churches #historic #lightroom #village #dexter #washtenaw #michigan

A towering brick Gothic Revival Catholic church illuminated by a ray of light crossing its steeple.

November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM

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Sleep Drifter (b.1872)
Dexter, Washtenaw County Michigan.

#photography #night #nightphotography #autumn #architecture #victorian #brick #gabledell #oldbuildings #houses #historic #lightroom #village #dexter #washtenaw #michigan

A brick gabled ell with ornaments consistent with a mid-late 18th century design.

November 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM

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Yet Again (b.1890)
Dexter, Washtenaw County Michigan.

#photography #night #nightphotography #autumn #architecture #victorian #turret #queenanne #oldbuildings #houses #historic #lightroom #village #dexter #washtenaw #michigan

A Queen Anne style house with a corner wrap around porch and a square turret.

November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM

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James Litchfield House (b.1850)
Dexter, Washtenaw County Michigan.

The house stayed in the Litchfield family until 1950.

#photography #night #nightphotography #autumn #architecture #greekrevival #oldbuildings #houses #historic #lightroom #village #dexter #washtenaw #michigan

A lavish Greek Revival style manor. Symmetrical with a doric colonnade. Trees surround the house, besides in the front.

November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM

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Dexter Agriculture Association (f.1919) (b.~1950)
Dexter, Washtenaw County Michigan.

They changed their name to the Dexter Co-op Co. in 1927.

#photography #night #nightphotography #oldbuildings #grainelevators #farming #mills #agriculture #historic #lightroom #dexter #washtenaw #michigan

A grain elevator built in the mid-century. There's a vintage Purina sign hung on the upper wall of the building. The image is edited to have a dark blue and green hue.

November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM

Atlas

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I just passed this in Bloomfield Hills and I wanted to share it with y'all 😹

A green sign that says:
PET
----LIES
PLUS

November 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM

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ethers.elixirs 🏳️‍⚧️

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heaven is a truck

#photography #abandoned #puremichigan

A brown truck up on a bed, out of commission. It sits in front of a dilapidated abandoned house with sheets draped across it like spirits.

November 24, 2025 at 12:54 AM

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City Of Tiny Lights (b.1924)
Dexter, Washtenaw County Michigan.

#photography #night #nightphotography #autumn #architecture #craftsman #oldbuildings #houses #lightroom #village #dexter #washtenaw #michigan

Two craftsman style houses on a wet street illuminated by lamps on either side. Hardly visible trees loom in the dark background.

November 25, 2025 at 12:25 AM

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Westinghouse Electric (b.1926)
Detroit, Wayne County Michigan.

Designed by Albert Kahn

In the Elijah McCoy neighborhood.

View is north from Stanley and Trumbull.

#photography #autumn #architecture #artdeco #oldbuildings #warehouse #abandoned #urbangaze #lightroom #urban #detroit #wayne #michigan

An art deco style brick and concrete warehouse. The image has a blue/green/yellow tint to it. Designed by prolific Detroit architect Albert Kahn.

November 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM

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Westinghouse Electric (b.1926)
Detroit, Wayne County Michigan.

In the Elijah McCoy neighborhood.

View is south down Trumbull by the viaduct.

#photography #autumn #evening #overcast #architecture #oldbuildings #watertower #warehouse #abandoned #urbangaze #lightroom #urban #detroit #wayne #michigan

An urban landscape with a water tower and railroad bridge crossing over a street. Wayne State University banners adorn the lamp post.

November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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◘Trash Photography

@trashphotography.online

Alright. This is the final time I think I'll edit this!

Cleaned it up a lot and got it closer to how I wanted.

#Photography #IRPhotography #Infrared

A large clearing over a Georgia swamp sits under a bright blue sky surrounded by pink foliage

November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM

Atlas

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Character(s) (b.1923)
Clawson, Oakland County Michigan.

#photography #autumn #night #nightphotography #architecture #oldbuildings #houses #lightroom #suburban #clawson #oakland #michigan

A two story townhouse with a sunroom partially obscured by a red leafed autumn tree.

November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM

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Anne Bonny (b.1929)
Pleasant Ridge, Oakland County Michigan.

#photography #autumn #night #nightphotography #architecture #tudor #oldbuildings #houses #lightroom #suburban #pleasantridge #oakland #michigan

A classic Tudor designed house with lights coming out from inside.

November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM

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Call the Kettle (b.1910)
Pleasant Ridge, Oakland County Michigan.

#photography #autumn #night #nightphotography #architecture #craftsman #oldbuildings #houses #lightroom #suburban #pleasantridge #oakland #michigan

A craftsman style house with a wide covered porch and a bay window on the second floor. The dark image is tinted purple and blue.

November 24, 2025 at 5:50 AM

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Berserker (b.1923)
Pleasant Ridge, Oakland County Michigan.

#photography #autumn #night #nightphotography #architecture #craftsman #oldbuildings #houses #lightroom #suburban #pleasantridge #oakland #michigan

The silhouette of a Craftsman style house, partially illuminated by the front porch light at night.

November 23, 2025 at 10:42 PM

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Pleasant Ridge & Ridge Road
"Royal Oak Township," Oakland County Michigan

Ridge Road is an old pathway of the Saginaw Trail network of roads developed by the indigenous people (mostly Ojibwe) who traveled regularly between the Detroit River and Saginaw Bay.

A historic plaque reading: "RIDGE ROAD"
"One of the historic trails leading out of Detroit and built on a sandy ridge to avoid swamplands on either side, Ridge Road was originally part of the Saginaw Trail. This route meandered north from Detroit to Pontiac, Flint, Saginaw and finally terminated at the Straits of Mackinac. Originally an Indian pathway connecting Indian villages on the Detroit River with those in Oakland County and other interior areas, the Saginaw Trail was widened by federal troops in 1819. In the years that followed, settlers by the thousands, traveling by covered wagon, ox cart and stagecoach, used the Ridge section of the trail to reach homesteads in Oakland and other inland counties. It has remained a vital highway ever since. The City of Pleasant Ridge incorporated as a village in 1919 derives its name in part from this road."

Historic map of Royal Oak Township, Oakland County Michigan c.1840. Ridge "Rochester" Road is highlighted yellow.

Additional info:
The diagonal pathway is the main branch of the Saginaw Trail. It became a turnpike when Michigan gained statehood.

A land route developed by Native Americans during a time when rivers were the principal network to travel. The Saginaw Trail connected the trading and fishing grounds near the Detroit River to Saginaw Bay. Along the way, the path intersects the Grand Traverse of the Flint and Cass Rivers, where modern day Flint, Michigan is today.

Historic map of Royal Oak Township, Oakland County Michigan c.1908. Ridge Road is highlighted yellow.

Present map of Royal Oak Township, Ferndale, Oak Park, Pleasant Ridge, Berkley, Royal Oak (city), and parts of Clawson and Birmingham, Oakland County Michigan.

Ridge Road is highlighted red.

November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM

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Giggie

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"Birkett Castle" 306 Metcalfe, #Ottawa b. mid-1890s
read all about it here —
housemouse613.blogspot.com/2017/05/306-...

November 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM

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Shadow People (b.~1900)
New Haven, Macomb County Michigan.

#photography #autumn #night #nightphotography #victorian #architecture #dutchcolonial #turrets #oldbuildings #houses #lightroom #village #newhaven #macomb #michigan

A Dutch Colonial style house with a wrap around Queen Anne style porch and a conical turret.

November 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM

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Alice Ferox

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Dream Divide

Little trio of images I had complete a few years back, but I haven't shared here with y'all. Which version do you like best?

#photography #mixedmedia #digitalart #portrait #dreamy #cerebral #transartists #queerart