21218 Description Oakenshawe is ideally located and adjacent to many attractions.
Houses range from three to five bedrooms, and are superbly constructed of brick with slate roofs.
In addition, there are some individual houses, semi-detached houses of earlier and later date that are within the neighborhood. The atmosphere is one of an eighteenth century English town, within the city. History Click for more information on this Neighborhood's History Oakenshawe comprises part of the estate of Henry R. Wilson, who sold his property for development to the Phillip C. Mueller Company in the early twentieth century. The first houses were built in 1916 along Guilford Terrace, with other sections following at intervals thereafter. The architects, Flournoy and Flournoy, who were brothers, were masters of home planning in the Georgian Revival style.