MARR, Richard Henderson (1886-1946) of Detroit, Mich. designed a sumptuous Tudor Revival house for Frank H. Joyce, Riverside Drive East at George Avenue, FORD CITY [East Windsor], ONT. (Border Cities Star [Windsor], 17 June 1926, Section Two, p. 7; inf. Andrew Foot, Windsor). This mansion was later sold to Thomas E. Walsh, and published as his own property in the Toronto journal called Canadian Homes & Gardens, xv, August 1938, 28-9, illus., and is now a designated historic property (Parks Canada, Canada's Historic Places, listed on 30 July 2007).
Marr was educated in Boston and trained with T.M. James of Boston and with George D. Mason in Detroit. He opened his own office in Detroit in 1915 where his best known works include the R.L. Polk Building and the mansions for William A. Fisher and Alfred Fisher, Wellesley Drive, Detroit, 1925 (K.B. Eckert, Buildings of Michigan, 1993, 101-02). Marr died in Detroit on 23 April 1946 (obituary Detroit Free Press, 24 April 1946, 7; biog. H. Withey, Biographical Dictionary of American Architects, 1956, 391)