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Author Philp, Drew, author.

Title A $500 house in Detroit : rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city / Drew Philp.

Publication Info. New York : Scribner, 2017.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  307.3 PHILP    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  307.3 PHI    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  307.3 PHILP    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  307.34 PHILP    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  307.3 PHILP    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  307.34 PHI    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  307.34 PHILP    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  307.33 PHI    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  307.3416 PHILP    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  307.34 PHI    Check Shelf

Edition First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Prologue: best bid -- Raw material -- Clapboard siding -- Someone else's trash -- Windows and doors and airplanes -- A fence between me and the world -- Load-bearing walls -- The furnace -- A chimney to the sky -- A knock on the door -- Progress gallops -- The years roll by -- Someone else's home.
Summary "A young writer's sincere search (with his dog) for an authentic life--buying a ruined house in Detroit for $500, fixing it up nail by nail, and, in the process, participating in the grassroots rebirth of the city itself."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Philp, Drew -- Homes and haunts -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Biography.
Dwellings -- Remodeling -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Urban renewal -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Citizen participation.
Subculture -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Community development -- Michigan -- Detroit.
Working class white people -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Biography.
African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations.
Generation Y -- Biography.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Added Title Five hundred dollar house in Detroit
Rebuilding an abandoned home and an American city
ISBN 9781476797984 (hardcover)
1476797986 (hardcover)
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