Kingston Arms Apartments

Kingston Arms Apartments is a four-and-a-half-story residential building in the East Grand Boulevard Historic District featuring brick walls with stone trim, half-timbered upper floors, and distinctive gables crowning the projecting bays. It contains 24 apartments distributed across multiple levels with additional retail space in the basement level accessed through a separate entrance.

The building was constructed in 1924 during Detroit's pre-Depression era when middle-class apartment developments were emerging across the growing industrial city. This timing reflects how the city was developing new housing forms to accommodate its rapidly expanding workforce.

The lobby features ceramic tiles including Pewabic works arranged in diagonal patterns, reflecting local Detroit craftsmanship from the 1920s. These tiles show how artisans shaped the interior details of residential buildings during that era.

The building stands at 296 East Grand Boulevard where its distinctive Tudor-style exterior can be easily viewed from the street. The retail space has its own entrance, separate from the residential levels, making it simple to navigate the building's layout.

The structure preserves its original entrance doors, windows, and facade details unchanged since completion, with only paint applications as later modifications. This remarkable retention of original elements makes it a rare window into how buildings of this era originally appeared.