Detroit Secret Garden

Overview

Imagine being immersed into the Schinkel Fine Art gallery interactive contemporary art experience at the historic Moross House with its' urban garden oasis. This property is home to the oldest brick dwelling in Detroit with backyard ivy climbing greenery brick walled privacy. The yard boasts one of the oldest wisteria - if not the very oldest wisteria - in the midwest, which sits beneath a charming twinkle light trellis. The garden at the Moross House is a newly landscaped verdant sanctuary juxtaposed with the National Historic Register Property, built circa 1840. The transition from the newly renovated Schinkel Fine Art gallery at the Moross House to the outside garden transports guests from a Detroit legendary urban property to a Secret Detroit Garden. This one-of-a-kind setting welcomes you and your guests to be delighted with enjoying an authentic experience found only here in Detroit. The garden contains an over fifty year old potting shed built by the city of Detroit when Detroit owned the historic property in the 1970s and can be used as a stage, bar, and exhibition space. Housed throughout the garden enticing contemporary art + dynamic controlled lighting features make the experience unforgettable.

This property - unlike anything found elsewhere - is available for rental for events, business meetings, weddings, rehearsal dinners, dinner meetings, pop ups and gatherings. The space is comprised of two ground floor primary rooms opening to a designer kitchen, and a hand painted powder room with art mirror. An upstairs apartment is available for additional add on use. Outside the garden areas include an art gallery alleyway, a charming wisteria trellis above a long wood table, chairs and seating, and a center courtyard half grassy half brick paver appropriate for seating, bar, high top tables and strolling. A lower level gated area in the back off of Woodbridge and shielded from the rest of the property has 1000 sqf available to be used for food trucks, additional bathrooms, outdoor kitchen, gated parking and back entrance to the property.

Free street parking available in front of the property on E. Jefferson and in back of the garden on Woodbridge. Free parking lot at adjacent Diversified Members Credit Union after their business hours: Monday - Thursday- after 4:30pm, Friday - after 6:00pm, Saturday after 1:00pm and all day Sunday.