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Doors open at 2 p.m. Sunday for the first public open house at the Brush Park landmark restored by Nicole Curtis of cable TV's "Rehab Addict" show.
MLive reports the start time in an update by Ian Thibodeau. The cutoff for getting in line is 3 p.m.
It costs nothing to see the restored Ransom Gillis mansion, although visitors will be asked for a donation to benefit a local family in need, Maureen Feighan writes at The Detroit News. She adds:
Curtis teamed up with Quicken Loans in late July to restore the iconic Venetian Gothic mansion on Alfred Street in Brush Park, which had been vacant for decades. They’ve converted it into a duplex and the restoration will be featured on the upcoming season of Curtis’s show, which is slated to premiere Nov. 5 on HGTV.
The mansion – with its beloved turret, which has been completely restored – is Curtis’s third Detroit project.
"We are closing in on being done," Curtis recently posted on Facebook. Chain-link fencing around the site is gone.
A large crowd is certain Sunday, and Curtis earlier promised to greet those who line up and give jump-ahead preference to senior citizens and families with young kids.
Original article, Oct. 23:
People who live in the Brush Park neighborhood of Detroit, just north of Comerica Park, or those who have a curiosity, have been tracking the progress at the 1876 Ransom Gillis house at 205 Alfred Street that's getting a major makeover by Nicole Curtis, HGTV star and host of "Rehab Addict."
This is even better than just doing a drive-by or snooping around the perimeter at the corner of John R:
Curtis is having an open house on the afternoon of Sunday, Nov. 1.
Did you miss it ? I announced my next open house !!! #ransomgillis #brushpark November 1
— Nicole Curtis (@nicolecurtis) October 20, 2015
The house is at Alfred and John R in Brush Park, just north of the ballpark. (Google Earth photo)
On her Facebook page, she posts:
I can't tell you how many people drive over to our latest project to meet me and see it. Out of all the projects I've ever done, please know on this I've watched more than done.
We have so many trades working at once and it's massive. I don't own the property and it's a lot of "handling" vs doing what I love doing. . . . Working on a project like this is no easy task & right now, we have a full crew there painting for us to be able to move furniture in.
-- Allan Lengel
