Meadow Brook Hall is one of the largest houses ever built in the U.S. but its walls hold many dark secrets
here was a period in the not so distant past when Detroit was a particularly alluring destination for those who saw themselves as edgier members of the Instagram set. Call their chosen genre ruin porn: beautiful photos of formerly grand spaces gone to seed. Detroit’s dizzying rise and fall was their fodder.
Meadow Brook Hall’s deception starts from the very beginning. Standing in front of the mansion, it’s hard to imagine it’s 88,000 square feet. It’s only as you twist and see the house continue endlessly, wing unsheathed from wing, enveloping the front circle, that you realize how big it is.
The house from the outside is a classic early 20th century Tudor Revival, a style whose overwhelming popularity in the Midwest is the subject of an essay I hope to read someday. Meadow Brook is altogether lovely, if it does take the pastiche a little far in parts but the brick work is fetching and the scale is pleasing. Inside, wandering its rooms, the word that comes to mind for any seasoned house museum traveler might again be “lovely.
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