| Marx House | |
| Location: | 2630 Biddle Avenue Wyandotte, Michigan |
| Coordinates: | 42.2072°N -83.1489°W |
| Built: | 1862 |
| Architecture: | Italianate |
| Added: | August 13, 1976 |
| Area: | less than one acre |
| Refnum: | 76001043 |
| Designated Other1: | Michigan State Historic Site |
| Designated Other1 Link: | Michigan State Historic Preservation Office |
| Designated Other1 Date: | January 16, 1976 |
| Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
The Marx House is a private house at 2630 Biddle Avenue in Wyandotte, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1976. It is now used by the Wyandotte Historical Museum.[1]
This house was built in approximately 1862 for Warren Isham.[1] In the next 60 years, the house went through six owners,[1] including Charles W. Thomas, Wyandotte's first druggist, and Dr. Theophilus Langlois, a prominent physician who served as Wyandotte's mayor for two terms and contributed to other civic projects in the city.[2] In 1921, the house was purchased by John Marx, the city attorney and scion of a local brewery owner.[2] [1] In 1974, John Marx's children Leo Marx and Mary T. Polley gave the house to the city of Wyandotte.[1] The house was opened to the public in 1996.[1]
The Marx House is a two-story Italianate townhouse built of red brick and sitting on a stone foundation.[3] The facade features a double entrance door and tall windows topped with semicircular brick-and-stone hoods.[2] A truncated hipped roof, with ornamental ironwork at the perimeter of the uppermost flat area, caps the structure.[3] A two-story frame wing with a single-story addition is connected at the rear of the building.[2]