The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House Gets A Major Upgrade
Edsel Ford is one of my favorite characters from Detroit's history, and I often wonder what would have happened if he hadn't died early of stomach cancer in 1943.
If you've seen a Lincoln Continental - you can thank Edsel. If you've seen a Ford in general, he saved the company convincing his attached-to-the-past father to produce the Model A.
And this doesn't even begin to get into Edsel's numerous civic works that have left a mark on our region for generations. Been to the Rivera court at the DIA? Yeah, he was a big part of that.
The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House - his old estate in Grosse…
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