Pleasant Ridge East Historic District

The Pleasant Ridge East Historic District is a residential historic district located east of Woodward Avenue in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan, and bounded by Woodward, Ten Mile Road, Conrail, and the east and south city limits. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
The first settler in what is now Pleasant Ridge was Virgil Rose, who purchased a 400-acre portion of land centered on the Ten Mile Road - Woodward Avenue intersection. In the late 19th century, the Rose family heirs sold a portion of the tract west of Woodward to Alfred F. Wilcox, who developed a large estate in 1900 and in 1906 began platting a subdivision. The Rose family continued to own the land east of Woodward until 1914, when they platted the LaBelle Heights and Hamilton Woods subdivisions which include the majority of this historic district. The first houses were built in 1915-16, and in 1919 Pleasant Ridge, on both east and west sides of Woodward, was incorporated as a village.

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