A modern house in Birmingham among autumn trees, built by Mosher Dolan

Where we build

Custom home builder in Birmingham, Michigan.

Also Bloomfield Hills, Franklin, West Bloomfield, Orchard Lake, Huntington Woods, Pleasant Ridge, Ann Arbor, and Detroit

Mosher Dolan was founded in Birmingham in 1979 and has built, renovated, and restored homes across the city ever since. Our office on North Main Street in Royal Oak is ten minutes from downtown; our receiving yard on Nakota is closer still.

Building here

Working in conversation with the city.

Birmingham has strong opinions about how it looks, and it should. Lot coverage, setbacks, height, how a new house sits beside the older ones on its street: every one of them is reviewed, and the review is only slow for people who are learning it as they go.

We have been building and renovating here since 1979. We know the ordinances, the boards, and the people behind them, and we design to pass the first time. That does not make the process short. It makes it predictable, which is what you actually want from it.

New homes

Ground-up houses on established streets, whether the lot is empty or an older house is coming down. Traditional, transitional, or modern, designed with your architect to belong on the street and to clear the city’s review the first time.

Renovations & additions

Whole-house renovations, kitchens and primary suites, additions that match the original so closely you cannot find the seam, and the surprises that come with century-old houses, handled calmly.

Restoration

Older homes across the region, with the most significant of them in Bloomfield Hills and Detroit, brought back with the plaster, masonry, and millwork done the way they were done the first time, by trades who still know how.

English Tudor with steep gables on a wooded lot
English Tudor · renovation & addition
Shingle-style home with a fieldstone chimney
Lakefront Shingle Cottage
Modern house among autumn trees
Modern in the Trees

Design partners

With Birmingham’s architects and designers.

We work with the architects and interior designers most active in the city, the firms whose work shapes the streets Birmingham is known for, and with out-of-town firms in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles on second homes and family houses here. Come with a team, or ask us for an introduction. How we work with architects →

Start the conversation

Tell us what you’re considering.

Building in Birmingham or nearby? Tell us about the lot, or the house.