Walking Tour-29 South Holcomb Street-Walking Tour
(West Side of Street)

The original sections of this house, a Midwestern adaptation of the Greek Revival style, were built by 1856. The owner, Henry Hirst /Hurst purchased the Clarkston mills property from Jeremiah and Nelson W. Clark in 1859. Hirst/Hurst also owned the house at 76 N. Main from 1853 to about 1864 when his partner in the mills' property, Erastus Stiff, purchased that house.

Like so many other early houses in the Village, built in the same style, the original section has a wide entablature with broken pediment gable on the street facing facade of the one & 1/2 story section with a single story wing to the south. The house was converted to two family use in the 1940s. In the 1980s a wing with garage was added to the west facade. At the same time, aluminum siding was applied over the clapboard. The original wood trim was left exposed.

Official Property Description:

• Lot 9 of Block 16 of N. W. Clark's Plat of the Village in the Southwest 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
• The South 1/2 of Lots 4 & 5 Block 2 of Myron G. Cobb's Southwest Addition to the Original Plat of the Village.
• Lot 96 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]

• Note: All the properties currently located in the Historic District were originally part of a tract registered by Butler Holcomb with the federal government on October 22, 1831. Thus, abstracts for these properties, when they exist, show the original transfer to be from the United States to Butler Holcomb and may also include references to then President Andrew Jackson.
• 1842 Nelson W. Clark, Original Plat of the Village.
• 1843 Nelson W. & Phidelia Clark to Polly Clark. Blocks 13, 14, 15 & 16.
• 1844 Nelson W. Clark, Block 16, assessed value $10.
• 1848 Polly Clark, Blocks 13, 14, 15, & 16, assessed value $76.
• 1849 Polly Clark to Myron G. & Jane Cobb.
• 1854 Cobb's Plat of the Southwest Addition.
• 1855 Cobb to Henry T. Hirst/Hurst, Lot 5 & the south 1/2 of Lot 4.
• 1856 Henry T. Hirst/Hurst, Lot 5 & the south 1/2 of Lot 4, assessed value $450.
• 1858 as above.
• 1868 Thomas S. Bird, Lot 5 & the south 1/2 of Lot 4 Block 2 & Lot 2, assessed value $525.
• 1870 as above. 1872 Map of the Village has a building footprint on this site, owner, T. S. Bird.
• 1889 C. A. Allen, Lot 5 & 1/2 of Lot 4, assessed value $700.
• Joseph E. Bird estate, Lot 5 and the south 1/2 of Lot 4, Block 2, assessed value $800.
• 1914 Francis Bird, Lot 5 & the south 1/2 of Lot 4 Block 2, assessed value $300 (exempt $1,000).
• 1935 Francis Bird.
• 1940 Thomas S. Boyns.
• 1950 Thomas S. Boyns, Lot 96.
• 1956 as above.