old Slumpy I presume?

A very good capture, Paul.

wow, great find!

looks like just a little cosmetic work. A power wash and some fresh paint should do the trick.

yep ... needs some work :-P
Great find !

Nice shot. I like the wide angle effect here.

I recently posted a photo of this same house (apparently known popularly as "Old Slumpy"), and a commentor said :

"built in 1893 for businessman William Livingstone (Livingstone Lighthouse), the French Renaissance home was one of the first projects by Albert Kahn, for the firm of Mason and Rice"

I would guess the city probably owns it, as with some other mansions in the neighborhood, but I don't know for sure.

Just to add to the old slumpy history, Livingston is indeed the same individual commemorated by the marble lighthouse on belle isle. The mansion was was moved a block east due to construction work and has never been the same since. My office overlooks it and every day I look out to check it's still standing. More history here:

detroit1701.org/Livingstone Mansion.html

I doubt anything can be done for it, but they've done amazing things in the Brush Park rehabilitation (gentrification), see the Ransom Gillis house for example.

Looks like its gonna just fall down, like a bomb went off.

Nice capture of it. I see you got in. Hey there is a lower room available! I kinda like the blow outs in the top sky, makes me think it''s burning down too.

Slumpy just had a bad few days - lost much of the front Facade, and with storms coming in this afternoon ... a pic here

DBB.... it looks so sad against that bright blue sky.
I may take a quick trip down this morning before the weather changes... Thanks for the update.

Hey Paul, I blogged this to The Last Days of Slumpy on Absolute Michigan.

Thanks for adding it to the Absolute Michigan pool.

paulhitz, i had the same thought myself. I paused the video several times and couldn't see anything thrown, but if it had been, it might have been just prior to when the video starts.

one of the youtube posters claims it was a teacher showing people around town, and just happened to be videotaping when it happened.

either it was cosmic odds, or else someone did throw a stone, but if that's all it took to make the facade collapse, it seems like the next strong wind would have done the job, anyway.

but yeah, i'd like to know more about the video(s) too.

Good point - it's not as if some magical 11th hour unslumpification was going to happen. Maybe the videos will help to remind people that taking care of historical structures actually requires effort and planning.