Dearborn's housing is unusually deliberate for a city its size, because much of it was planned. The Ford Homes Historic District went up in 1919 and 1920 — 250 houses in six models by architect Albert Wood, set at varying distances from the curb so the blocks would not read as uniform, and all of them still standing. Springwells Park followed in 1939 under Edsel Ford and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
Around those districts sit neighborhoods of solid interwar and postwar brick: the Aviation Subdivision, named for the airfield that preceded it, along with Snow Woods, Golfview Oaks, Country Club Estates, and the blocks organized under the city's neighborhood associations. Ford's world headquarters, the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and The Henry Ford and Greenfield Village all sit inside the city, and I-94, the Southfield Freeway, and Michigan Avenue put downtown Detroit and the airport each within about twenty minutes.
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