Edsel & Eleanor Ford built the Estate at Haven Hill originally as a weekend retreat, but it quickly became their year round home. After building their final home at Gaukler Pointe in Grosse Pointe Shores, the Haven Hill home became their weekend and vacation retreat once again. Haven Hill, the estate, is on one of the highest points in Oakland County and sits on over 2,400 acres which made up the entire Estate and grounds. The Estate contained the main home-Lodge, a Carriage house-Garage, that was home to the chauffeur and the family’s autos, the Gate House where visitors were greeted and allowed access to the grounds (located near M-59), the Horse Stables/Farm house located at the bottom of the Hill and which you had to pass by on your way up to the top of the hill, the Sheep Barn and Farm located near Teeple lake, S.E. of the hill, was a working Farm for over 20 years.
The lodge itself was a 6,100-square-foot, six-bedroom cabin with five massive Vermont stone fireplaces. Built in from logs hauled down from company properties in the Upper Peninsula, it was nestled into a hill that gave it three separate lower levels. To complete the “Up North” feel, pine needles were sometimes trucked in and spread around the house for that woodsy aroma.
The grounds contained a huge kidney-shaped swimming pool, a clay Tennis court, a man-made lake stocked with fish and a quarter-mile Toboggan run with a motorized lift to tow riders back to the top after each ride. Also there was a formal Fountain/Garden area, Dog Kennel and private family Nature Trails, complete with bridges, benches and stone structures.
The Lodge entrance The Carriage house
House at Horse Stables DAM at Haven Hill Lake
The Dog Kennel Fountain/Gardens
The Pool gated entrance The Green Barn, long ago
Lodge grounds remains The Carriage House front
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Haven Hill Project 
Does anyone know what the structure built into the side of the hill below the pool was used for? It looks like possible a pump house?
Yes Bill, that is what the Fords called it. The Well Pump house. It housed the Pump which pulled water for all the structures and sent most f it up to the well house where it was distributed to the Lodge and carrige house. from the Pump house, water was also sent over to the Pool and Fountain areas. There is simpley miles of underground water pipes on the Estate.
Great. Thank you for the quick response. We were hiking there yesterday for the first time in many years and it was more beautiful and interesting than I had recalled.
Are there any real detailed maps for hiking? We would like maps that are not just ones of the usual trails. Thank you!
Is there any way to get a floor plan of the lodge including the walls and the rooms?