Even if you don't care for grand and opulent old homes, here are gardens, pools, the Rouge River flowing by, long meadows, woodland trails, frogs, garter snakes, butterflies, woodchucks, squirrels, chipmunks, songbirds, wildflowers -- you'd never know you were so close to Detroit. Never eaten at the restaurant, though many people have advised me to, but I've often returned to the estate and the grounds.