Fair Lane – Where Henry Ford Went Home
The driveway at Fair Lane does something unusual. It hides the house from you. Landscape architect Jens Jensen planted the entrance path through dense woodland and curved it just enough that you see nothing but trees until the last moment.
Then the house breaks open in front of you. It is a long gray limestone face sitting above the Rouge River. Henry Ford, the man who ran one of the largest industrial operations in human history, chose to live here.
Not in Detroit, not in some grand lakefront neighborhood. A few miles from the farm where he was born in 1863, back in Dearborn, where he started…