Beaubien House
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Beaubien House houses the Michigan Society of Architects. The building is one of the oldest remaining houses in Detroit, completely renovated in 1987. Beaubien House gives an idea of middle-class life in the middle of the nineteenth century. The land on which it sits is a piece of one of the original strip farms that ran back from the river in the days before the English replaced the French settlers. The site is that of the Antoine Beaubien farm, which had a quarter of a mile frontage on the river, but which ran back from the water nearly three miles, and was 336.83 acres in size. Beaubien was a Colonel in the Detroit Militia and received the patent certificate for his land in 1810.
