Romney’s Home Destroyed!

Romney’s Home Destroyed!

Romney's Home Destroyed!
Long before Mitt Romney was a mega successful business consultant and venture capitalist, Olympic CEO, governor of Massachusetts and GOP presidential candidate, he really was a Michigan child where the trees are the right height and the grass is the correct shade of green. This is the home Mitt Romney lived in for the first 5 years of his life when he was still called "Billy." It's the house he refers to many times when taking us back to his "roots" during campaign speeches.

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Mitt's early childhood home was in the upscale neighborhood of Detroit's Palmer Park where many of Detroit's junior auto executives have lived for years. Mitt's father George moved higher and higher in the automobile business and eventually became the CEO of American Motors. When Mitt was age 5, the family moved to the more affluent Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills. Mitt stayed in Michigan until he left to attend Stanford University.

If you grew up in Detroit, Palmer Park was one of the neighborhoods you imagined would be the perfect life when you got married and had your own family. With its "right height" Elm trees, tudor homes and quiet streets, even today Palmer Park is an ideal neighborhood for families.

While many homes in Detroit have been abandoned and torn down as part of the city's campaign to remove blighted properties, no one seems quite sure why Mitt's childhood home fell victim to the wrecking ball. Neighbors say that the home had been vacant for years, but there were no signs of vandalism, squatters or drug users. The house just fell apart after years of neglect.

Although the home was torn down in 2010 and today is an empty lot in the middle of nice homes, the house was in the news during the recent Michigan Republican presidential primary. When talking about his Michigan roots, Mitt said, "I was born in Detroit, Harper Hospital, our home was right around six-mile and Woodward, a place called Palmer Park. And uh, we had a home there. It's been bulldozed now because it turned, I guess, into an eyesore or a place where drugs were being used so they had to tear it down. It was a lovely home."

Source: www.zillow.com