[2] The home was designed for William Palmer, an economics professor at the University of Michigan, and his wife Mary.

Mary Warton Shuford was born in North Carolina and enrolled in the University of Michigan's School of Music in 1935.

After seeing the Affleck house in Bloomfield Hills, they contacted Frank Lloyd Wright.

Jeffrey Schox, who is a San Francisco patent attorney, spends several weeks a year in Ann Arbor.

The hipped roof is long and dramatic, with a low slope and wide overhangs extending over each wings; it is clad with cedar shingles and copper.