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Designed for Theodore Buhl and his wife Anastasia Reilly, a Ziegfeld Follies dancer, of Grosse Point, Michigan. Out of Bounds was the couple’s second home and the third house to be built on the Island Road development.

The residence was designed for Grover Loening, a German aircraft manufacturer who graduated from Columbia University with the first-ever degree in aeronautical science and was part of Orville Wright's original design team.

Bernard Henry Kroger, an American businessman who created the Kroger chain of supermarkets, commissioned Volk to renovate an existing Beaux Art structure into something more innovative and progressive. Volk transformed the building into the Art…

The Moffett House is an example of Volk’s versatility and is considered one of the earliest Art Moderne structures on the island. Volk designed the house for James Moffett, the first Federal Housing Administrator under the Franklin D. Roosevelt…

One of Shoumate’s first recorded commissions was this Art Moderne residence for the Stechers. The avant-garde structure resembles a ship and features many Moderne elements such as a flat roof, scalloped details, and rounded corners. It’s believed…

Built for Jack M. Davis, the manager of the Hotel Mayflower, in the Art Moderne style. The residence is rich in whimsical features such as scalloped details on the primary façade leading up to the roof and the reoccurrence of the porthole shape. The…