Julie Hinds writes in the Free Press about a 135-year-old house in Detroit's Brush Park that is one of the stars of “Only Lovers Left Alive,” the Jim Jarmusch film that has been drawing good reviews and opens today in metro Detroit.
The vampires are played by “Avengers” star Tom Hiddleston and Oscar winner Tilda Swinton of “Michael Clayton.”
The historic home, at 82 Alfred, north of Comerica Park, symbolizes the decaying grandeur of a post-industrial city in the film, Hinds writes.
In the movie, the brick house with the striking turret is the moody abode of Adam (Hiddleston), a centuries-old rock musician-vampire who prefers to dine via blood banks and lives surrounded by old sound equipment, vinyl albums, rare guitars and photos of artists ranging from Franz Kafka to Iggy Pop.
Now under ronovation, the house was built in the late 1870s, then expanded and remodeled to its Queen Anne style by David C. Whitney, son of lumber baron David Whitney Jr., according to Eric Becker of Saginaw, who has researched the historic homes of the Brush Park neighborhood,
