I have a healthcare facility in West Bloomfield that we service. The place is an old mansion. I asked one of the staff today about who the builder/owner was.
He was a partner of Henry Ford who split and started his own company.
The original parts of the house are awesome. The "carriage" house has a ballroom and bowling alley!
The ceilings are leather and the molding/trim work is beautiful(in a manly way, of course.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders_(automobile_company)