The Manoogian Mansion is the

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of the

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. It is located at 9240 Dwight Street in the Berry Subdivision Historic District, on the city's east side, backing up to the

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History

The mansion was built in 1928 at the cost of $300,000 ( $ million in ). The original owner lost the home during the

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and it sat vacant until

Alex Manoogian Alexander Manoogian ( hy, Ալեք Մանուկեան; June 28, 1901 – July 10, 1996) was an Armenian-American industrial engineer, businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist who spent most of his career in Detroit, Michigan. He was the foun ...

, founder of the

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company, purchased the home at an auction in 1939 for a mere $25,000 ( $ million in ). In 1966, Manoogian donated the mansion to the City of Detroit. Jerry Cavanagh and his family became the first mayoral family to occupy the mansion In late 2002 rumors began surfacing that Mayor

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had thrown an excessive party there. After defeating

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in a special election in 2009 following Kilpatrick's resignation, new mayor

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did not immediately move into the mansion because of city budget issues. Cockrel likewise had not moved into the mansion. Bing moved into the mansion in 2010. He considered altering the mansion's name to remove association with the rumored Kilpatrick partying incident.Mayor Dave Bing moving to Manoogian Mansion, mulls name change in wake of rumored party
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Location and composition

The Manoogian Mansion is located along the

, several miles east of

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. The

stated that it is in "a small, older subdivision". As of 2010 the maintenance cost was $116,000 per year.

Architecture

The Manoogian Mansion has

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with a Mission Revival Style influence including a

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tile roof. It has approximately . The physical layout of the house is dominated by walls of windows – bowed windows, arched windows, leaded windows – that let light stream in and open onto views of the grounds and the

. The downstairs contains three sunrooms facing south and the river. There are 15 rooms in all, including a large living room, library, kitchen and two dining rooms: a formal room and a more casual one that looks toward the river. It has four bedrooms, plus two small bedrooms for servants. There are three full baths, a servants' bath and two half-baths. The Berry Historic Subdivision Historic District has the former homes of several prominent Detroit residents, including John and Frederic Ford, Arthur Clamage, and John Kay of Wright-Kay Jewelers. Notable architects who designed for the subdivision included John M. Donaldson and Henry J. Meier, A. C. Varney, Roland Geis and Robert O. Derrick.Berry Subdivision
. ''Cityscape Detroit''. The Manoogian mansion is one of the few houses in Detroit that has a boat house.

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{{Detroit Neighborhoods Armenian-American culture in Michigan Mayors' mansions in the United States Houses in Detroit Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in the United States Mediterranean Revival architecture in the United States Local government buildings in the United States Houses completed in 1928

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