Village of Barton Hills
Barton Hills, Washtenaw County, Michigan · Detroit Metro golf market
- Homes
- $1,200,000 – $1,725,000
- Housing
- single-family estate homes
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The Village of Barton Hills is a genuinely unusual residential product in the Detroit Metro golf market: a community planned from its earliest days as a single project alongside its golf club, rather than a subdivision built near a pre-existing course. Detroit Edison Company president Alex Dow assembled the land along the Huron River around 1910-1913 while the utility built the Barton Dam, envisioned the high ground above the river as an exclusive residential retreat for company executives, and in 1915 brought in the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm -- the successor firm to Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Central Park -- to lay out the community's lots and road system, much of which is still in use today. Detroit Edison opened the golf club in stages from 1919 to 1922 as the community's organizing amenity. The company sold the community to its own residents in 1944, and in 1973 the community incorporated as its own independent, home-rule Michigan village, governed today by an elected nine-member Board of Trustees.
At roughly 0.76 square miles and around 140 homes, Barton Hills' footprint is essentially the same land the Olmsted Brothers originally planned, and it is consistently reported as Michigan's wealthiest community by median household income. It sits about ten minutes northwest of downtown Ann Arbor within Ann Arbor Charter Township, but functions as a fully separate, self-governing municipality -- not an Ann Arbor neighborhood or an HOA-governed subdivision.
Golf Access
Does buying a home here include club membership?
Barton Hills Country Club membership is administered entirely separately from village residency: the club is a private, member-owned entity with its own invitation-based application process, and the village is a public municipal government. Roughly 45% of village residents were reported as club members in 2020 -- meaningful overlap for a community this identity-linked to its club, but confirmation that membership is neither included with, nor required for, buying a home here.
Living in Village of Barton Hills
Homes in Barton Hills sit on generous wooded lots along curving, Olmsted-planned roads, with architectural styles spanning midcentury modern to Colonial Revival, generally built between 1922 and 2000. With so few homes changing hands each year (roughly 5-10 annual sales), the market here behaves less like a typical suburban subdivision and more like a small, tightly held estate enclave -- buyers should expect limited inventory and work with an agent experienced specifically in this village rather than assuming broader Ann Arbor-area comps apply directly.
Lifestyle & Amenities
Beyond the golf club's own pool, tennis, fitness, and dining amenities (all separate, optional membership), residents have the Huron River, the village's wooded setting, and quick access to downtown Ann Arbor's restaurants, University of Michigan campus life, and Big Ten athletics.
Location & Surrounding Area
Barton Hills lies within Ann Arbor Charter Township along the Huron River, roughly a 10-minute drive from downtown Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan, and about 35-40 minutes from Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
Costs & Fees
Figures below are labeled Current only when the source itself frames them as presently accurate. Everything else is labeled Historical — a source checked today does not make an old figure a current one.
Home price (low)
Historical — as of 2026-09-23$1,200,000
Reported as the median sale price over the trailing 3 months on Redfin's Barton Hills market-trends page; with only ~5-10 sales/year in a ~140-home village, this figure moves significantly month to month and should be treated as a rough guide, not a locked figure -- is_current intentionally left unset given that volatility.
Home price (high)
Historical — as of 2026-09-23$1,725,000
Reported as the median sale price over the trailing 12 months on the same Redfin page; individual listed/sold homes range far outside this median (reports of roughly $800K on the low end to $5M+ at the top), so treat this range as a directional median, not a floor/ceiling -- is_current intentionally left unset given the small annual sales volume.
No HOA dues; residents pay standard Michigan village/county property taxes to the Village of Barton Hills and Washtenaw County. Barton Hills Country Club membership, where held, is a separate, optional cost administered entirely by the private club, not the village government.
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What Buyers Should Verify
- Confirm current property-tax millage rate directly with the Village of Barton Hills or Washtenaw County.
- Confirm current home-price range with a local agent given the very low annual sales volume.
- Confirm gated/guarded status directly -- no source found describing a guard gate.
Notable
- Planned as a single project with its golf club starting in 1913-1915 by Detroit Edison president Alex Dow and the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm.
- Sold by Detroit Edison to its own residents in 1944; incorporated as an independent Michigan village in 1973.
- Frequently reported as the wealthiest community in Michigan by median household income.
- Only about 140 homes and 5-10 sales per year, making published median price figures volatile.
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