Kid Rock’s Former Detroit Mansion

First, the honest part the gossip lists get wrong: Kid Rock isn’t a Detroit kid — he grew up on a spread in Romeo, well north of the city. But once Robert Ritchie became Kid Rock and turned “Detroit, Michigan” into a personal brand, he bought himself one of the most exclusive addresses in town: a 1930 riverfront Colonial in the gated Joseph Berry Subdivision, one of only a handful of homes that actually sit on the Detroit River, a few doors from the Manoogian Mansion and directly across the water from Belle Isle.

He bought it in 2012, filled it with American flags and a “Made in Detroit” everything, and loved telling people that Marvin Gaye used to party in the house back in the late ’60s, when it belonged to the family behind the Roostertail and hosted Motown’s elite. He sold the place in 2022 for around $2 million. It’s privately owned now — and, as the gates make clear, there’s nothing to spot up close — but it’s a short drive from Jack White’s Indian Village mansion, making an easy two-rocker east-side loop.