Aretha Franklin bought Detroit’s Rose Estate in 1994, but it later sat boarded up and sold for $300,000 after her death; new owners have since invested more than $2 million restoring the historic home...
Behind the boarded windows of a once-grand Detroit mansion lay more than years of neglect. The house had witnessed the private life of Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, and belonged to a chapter of the city’s cultural history that risked fading away.