Walnut Glen Fruit Farms. 4670 Middlebelt Rd. (Middlebelt at the corner of Lone Pine, southwest corner). Farm owned by T.T. Boberts managed by Russell Mason. Bean Fruit sprayer parked by water supply tank at the side of the appleshed. The supply tank, with its large volume filler hose, was necessary to save time in filling the 300 gallon bean. The farm pump was kept running to fill the supply tank while the men were out spraying. The team of bay horses, Prince and Bob, in the barnyard, are most likely hitched to the manure spreader. This was one of the first springtime chores. Sign on shed, which was a bag tacked over it since apples aren’t in season, had proclaimed Apples to be 25 cents and up. Fence was built in 1939 by Walter Mason, Jr. Note that Middlebelt Rd. was not paved… about 1940.
Walnut Glen Fruit Farms.

Object ID: 2002-001-880
Date: 1940
Collection: Biography, Mason, West BloomfieldSubjects: Keego Harbor, photographic, print
William V. Mason Farm

Object ID: 2002-001-879
Collection: Biography, Mason, West BloomfieldSubjects: iceboat, Orchard Lake, photographic, print
William V. Mason farm located on the southside of West Maple between Inkster and Middlebelt. By placing barn photo to the left, a composite view is obtained.
Horace E. Dodge house built by Albert Kahn in 1912.

Object ID: 2002-001-877
Collection: Biography, Walnut LakeSubjects: iceboat, photographic, print
Horace E. Dodge house built by Albert Kahn in 1912. Large red sandstone mansion on Jefferson Avenue in Grosse Pointe with early English Renaissance-banks of large mullioned windows that took advantage of commanding view across Lake St. Clair, as did classical porch with Tuscan columns and balustrade. (fabulous Dodge yacht Delphine docked at waterfront.)