Walking Tour-36 E. Church Street-Walking Tour
(South Side of Street)

Architecturally, a Midwestern adaptation Greek Revival style, this house has the indications of the original broken pediment entablature under the street facing gable on the one & 1/2 story section typical of the style. Also, the single story wing has a recessed porch which probably originally continued across the front of the wing. Like many such porches seen in the Village, apparently part of the porch was enclosed to increase interior living space. This theory is confirmed by the footprint of the building seen on the 1872 Map of the Village which is L - shaped.

Typical of the style, the openings (windows & doors) are symmetrically placed. While the fact that the house has been used as a two-family residence may explain the existence of two front doors, it should be noted that such houses often had two front doors; one was an entrance to the "Sunday parlor", the other was the family entrance.

Artificial siding covers the original wood clapboard. A small addition was constructed of the west facade. The house has long been used as a two family residence.

Official Property Description:

• The west part of Lot 1 Block 7 of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat of the Village in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
• Lot 26 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).
• 1846 Abraham Houghtelin, Lot 1 Block 7, assessed value $5. Nelson W. Clark, the west 1/2 of Block 7, assessed value $7.
• 1849 Abraham Houghtelin, Lot 1 Block 7, assesed value $12.
• 1869 Merlin Stuart, a piece bound on the east & south by Bloomfield and Scadding; west by Walter and Brokenshaw; north by Church Street, assessed value $150.
• 1870 Merlin Stuart, assessed value $200
• 1872 Map of the Village has a building footprint, owner,I.J. Buzzard
• 1888 Mary Buzzard to I. Addis (her daughter), a piece commencing at the southeast corner of William Urch's lot (Lot 3 Block 7).
• 1891 Addis, north to the Street, west by C. M. Smith & W. Urch, south by R. J. Broomfield, east by Lucy Mills, assessed value $500.
• 1912 Isabelle Addis (wife of Washington Addis).
• 1914 Isabelle Addis, Lot 1 and part of Lot 4 Block 7, assessed value $650.
• 1920 Isabelle Addis, assessed value $1200.
• 1927 Floyd Andrews, the west 1/2 of Lots 1 & 4 Block 7, assessed value $1500.
• 1928 Floyd Andrews, the west 99' of Lots 1 & 4, assessed value $1500.
• 1956 Floyd Andrews.