Walking Tour-77 Buffalo Street-Walking Tour
(East Side of Street)
This house was built about 1953 for Wayne Thompson
Official Property Description:
- Lots 14 & 15 Block 7 of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat of the Village in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
- Lot 31, except the north 66', of the Assessor's Plat.
Significant Property History:
[A Synopsis Of Property Transfers Derived From Abstracts
(when available) And Periodic Changes In Ownership Or
Assessed Value Derived From Township Tax Records]
- 1831 United States to Butler Holcomb.
- 1833 Butler Holcomb & wife, Mary, To Roswell/Roosevelt Holcomb, the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20.
- 1833 Butler Holcomb & wife, Mary, To Roswell/Roosevelt Holcomb, and wife, Elvine Holcomb, and Daniel B. Holcomb and wife, Alimira, to Jeremiah Clark, the south part of the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20.
- 1839 Jeremiah Clark to Nelson Washington Clark, the undivided 1/2 of the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 commencing.......
- 1842 Jeremiah Clark & wife, Polly, to Nelson W. Clark, the south part of the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20. Also other land.
- 1842 Jeremiah Clark & Nelson W. Clark to Village of Clarkston (Original plat of the Village).
- 1844 Jeremiah Clark, Lot 14 Block 7, assessed value $4.
- 1844 Nelson W. Clark, Lot 15 Block 7, assessed value $5.
- 1847 Jeremiah Clark, the west 1/2 of Block 7 except Lot 2, assessed value $10.
- 1867 Isaac Malby/Molby, Lots 11, 14, & 15, assessed value $200.
- 1872 Map of the Village shows no building footprint on this site, owner, William Malby/Molby.
- 1889 M. A. Maiden.
- 1896 Mary Jones.
- 1904 Miss Francis Jones, Lots 11, 14, & 15 Block, 7 assessed value $300.
- 1926 Francis Follette, Lots 11, 14, & 15, assessed value $1000.
- 1933 Francis Follette Estate, Lots 11, 14, & 15, assessed value $800.
- 1937 Francis Follette Est., Lots 11, 14, & 15, assessed value $800.
- 1938 Gertrude Green.
- 1943 Gertrude Green, Lot 31, assessed value $600.
- 1944 Donald O. Menzies, Lot 31, except the north 66', assessed value $500.
- 1952 Wayne L. Thompson.
- 1956 Wayne L. Thompson, Lot 31, except the north 66', assessed value $1900.
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