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Here's your chance to walk through the beautiful gardens at the Frank Lloyd Wright Turkel Home in
Detroit's Palmer Woods.

Visit historic spaces

during the Palmer

Woods Garden Tour.

The Palmer Woods
Garden Tour takes place
Sat., July 18. For tickets
to the tour ($15-$20) or
to a fundraising dinner
($75) Fri., July 17, visit
palmerwoods.org or call
(313) 891-2514.

Sharon Luckerman

Special to the
Jewish News

ore than 100 years ago,
Sen. Thomas Palmer
gifted Detroit more
than 100 acres of his farmland
to use as a public park. In 1915,
developer Charles W. Burton pur-
chased 188 acres north of the park
to create a residential subdivision
he called Palmer Woods.
Burton hired internationally
known landscape architects to
create winding drives and wooded
vistas, and eventually residents

built elegant mansions by archi-
tects including Frank Lloyd
Wright, Minoru Yamasaki and
Albert Kahn.
There are only a few oppor-
tunities during the year to see
these stately historic homes and
gardens. On July 18, as part of its
centennial celebration, the Palmer
Woods Neighborhood Association
will host a garden tour. Among
the six gardens is one tended by
Jodee and Roy Raines, members
of the Isaac Agree Downtown
Synagogue.
Raines, who moved from
Huntington Woods four years

ago, hired landscape architect Jeff
Klein to design an environmen-
tally friendly, modern interpreta-
tion of a formal English garden
with native plants. Ivan Katz's
Great Lakes Landscape Company
installed it.
The garden includes Japanese
Koi fish in a reflecting-style pond,
walkways of crushed limestone to
eliminate the need for grass and
disconnected downspouts to help
manage storm water.
Other gardens on the tour have
formal ponds and unique features,
including a glass conservatory,
cast-iron fountains, and stone

patios and statuary.
The Jewish history of Palmer
Woods runs deep with past and
current leaders, including Meyer
Prentis, Florine Mark and the
Borman and Citron families.
"In the last five years, Palmer
Woods has become much more
attractive to younger people says
Elaine Driker, a 40-year Palmer
Woods resident with her husband,
Eugene. "We have a children's
committee now Families see the
advantage of living here ... Palmer
Woods has been a remarkable
community — warm, interesting
and inviting:'

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