West Village is a neighborhood located in Detroit, Michigan, bounded by Jefferson, Kercheval, Parker, and Seyburn Avenues.

[1] West Village is a primarily residential neighborhood containing 275 single and two-family houses, thirty apartment buildings, and about twenty commercial structures spread over 20 square blocks.

[3] The neighborhood is platted in an irregular grid, and includes a number of service alleys and short, narrow cross streets.

[3] The areas adjacent to Jefferson Avenue were one of the most exclusive residential addresses in turn-of-the-century Detroit.

The neighborhood was home to a number of prominent Detroiters including Franz C. Kuhn, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court, Edwin C. Denby, Secretary of the Navy,[2] Theodore Hinchman, president of the architectural firm of Smith, Hinchman and Grylls, and sculptor Julius Melchers.