Detroit Home Build, June 1941

This June 1941 Kodachrome home movie captures a house rising at 739 Notre Dame, Grosse Pointe, next to Detroit. Scenes kick off with a vacation vibe—possibly Lake Superior’s shores—then shift to a foundation and construction, marked by a “Winkler & Co., Detroit’s Better Builders” sign (15645 Mack, TU.2-0840). Likely a family project, it shows workers laying bricks or framing walls, blending pre-WWII optimism with suburban growth in a personal, shaky snapshot of homebuilding.