Ashlee said state records don't confirm that date. A 20th-Century addition changed the lines of the house, but the original rooms have been restored. However, a visitor will not see exactly what was there in pioneer times. In 1981, Gandelot's husband, Jon Gandelot, bought Detroit's Trowbridge house, renovated it and turned it into an office for his law practice. Trowbridge was a banker, and his big three-story house had a view of the Detroit River.
Legend says relatives argued over a division of the house and eventually cut it in half.
Many of the interior fixtures like bookshelves and fireplaces were lost and had to be replaced. One fireplace still appears as it was in the 19th Century. In the basement, floor joists are roughly the same as when the house was built. Myth and reality None of these pre-statehood houses is made according to the classic Lincoln log technique of notching log ends. Although legend and a local history book say that Marilyn and Gerald Tuchow's big frame house near Wing Lake in Bloomfield Township was built by Elijah Bull as a log cabin, Marilyn Tuchow said that's a myth.