Two artists in their 30s, Christopher Lee and Amy Feigley-Lee, have fixed up the 110-year-old Detroit home that belonged to Christopher's great-grandfather, Patricia Montemurri writes in the Detroit Free Press.
The house is on Woodward, south of Highland Park, a distance from the neighborhoods getting attention from other young people, the media and corporations..
And it all began with a photo, Montermurri reports.
Shot in 1926, the family heirloom depicts Lee’s great-grandparents, Daniel and Patrice Foley, hosting a family gathering in honor of the Catholic priestly ordination of the Rev. Dominic Ignatius Aloysius Foley in 1926. The photo also depicts Lee’s great-great grandparents, William and Johanna Foley. The clan is assembled in a spacious foyer in front of a distinctive stairway.
Lee, 32, bought the house for $8,100 in a county tax foreclosure sale in 2007. The house had been empty for at least five years. He tracked the house for years while he was in graduate school at Cranbrook Academy of Art, after getting the address from his great uncle. His great uncle Bill Foley, now 83, jokes that he was conceived in the home’s master bedroom circa 1928
