Frank Lloyd Wright designed the William and Mary Palmer House in 1952, and it sits on three lots at the end of a quiet dirt-road cul-de-sac near Nichols Arboretum. William was an economics professor at the University of Michigan; Mary Warton Shuford studied in the University of Michigan's School of Music. They bought this property in 1949 after William, born in Imlay City, and Mary, born in North Carolina, began planning a house together.
After seeing the Affleck house in Bloomfield Hills they contacted Frank Lloyd Wright, and Wright answered with this design. The house occupies three lots at the end of a quiet dirt-road cul-de-sac, placed less than a mile (1.2 km) from the university and near Nichols Arboretum. It stayed in the Palmer family continuously from 1951 to 2009, was placed on the market in early August 2008 with restrictions, and was purchased by Jeffrey and Kathryn Schox in March 2009; Jeffrey Schox is a San Francisco patent attorney.
Notice the hush of the cul-de-sac and the three quiet lots the Palmers chose, just under a mile from campus and next to Nichols Arboretum.