This corner Cape Cod-style house enabled 3 generations---my mother, myself, and my son--to live together for several years. Basement, ground floor and upstairs provided just barely enough space for us, our border collie mix Snoopy, and briefly Doberman Ajax, to manage elderly, midlife, and teenaged needs. Despite its economic and social woes, Flint has extensive housing stock. In the inner city much is abandoned or gone to the Land Bank or demolished. But in its neighborhoods like Mott Park many houses testify to how much a traditional family home from the early or mid-20th century can help with life changes. Mott Park celebrates 90 years of existence in 2008. The neighborhood was developed to house GM workers who lived in tents in the early days of the auto boom in Flint.
Good looking domicile, ma'am. And I'm lucky enough to have had some fine leg 'o lamb with red wine in that house, not to mention a reception with Robert Hass!
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