When I first came to Detroit, I found a room for rent in this house on Canfield, west of Woodward Ave and a few blocks south of the campus of Wayne State University. It's in the Cass Corridor, Detroit's Tenderloin.
West Canfield, Detroit
I rented this house on Parker in the West Village, on the east side of Detroit near the Belle Isle Bridge. It's called West Village because it's just west of Indian Village. The house is directly across the street from the 100 year-old clay courts of the Indian Village Tennis Club.
West Village, Detroit
I rented the entire third floor, the ballroom floor, of this Indian Village Victorian for $85 a month.
Indian Village, Detroit
As a Victorian, it's an unusual house for Indian Village, where most of the large, stately homes were built from around 1905 to 1915. Making them technically, Edwardian.
Here's a map to give you some perspective on where Indian Village is located relative to the RenCen:
