Walking Tour-49 South Holcomb Street-Walking Tour
(West Side of Street)

This is one of the few Gothic Revival (Carpenter Gothic) style houses in the Village. A small cube is shown on the property on the 1872 Map of the Village. The owner then was Oscar Bump. Tax records listed Bump for the property beginning 1867. The assessed value more than doubled from 1875 to 1880 when Arvilla Petty was the owner. The Gothic Revival style house was probably built for her.

The porch on the house now has simple round Classical Revival style (Doric) columns which rest on a banister with clapboard below. Clapboard was typically used below the porch railings of bungalow style houses built in the 1920s. The house to the north also had a bungalow style porch. Both porches were likely built to replace badly deteriorated originals, and/or the modernize the structure about 1920. The steeply pitched gable roofs with pierced detail in the peaks and slender windows are of the Gothic style.

Official Property Description:

• Part of Block 13 of Nelson W. Clark's Plat of the Village in the Southwest 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
• Lot 3 Block 5 in Myron G. Cobb's Southwest Addition to the Original Plat of the Village.
• Lot 94 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 13, assessed value $5.
• 1848 Polly Clark, Blocks 13, 14, 15, & 16, assessed value $76.
• 1849 Polly to Myron F. & Jane Cobb.
• 1854 Myron G. Cobb Plat of the Southwestern Addition.
• 1860 M. H. Clark, Lots 3 & 4 Block 5.
• 1861 M. H. Clark, Lots 3 & 4 & a piece commencing at the southeast corner of Lot 8 Block 5.
• 1867 Oscar Bump, Lots 3 & 4 Block 5 & Lots 7 & 8, assessed $100.
• 1870 Oscar Bump as above. $125.
• 1872 Map of the Village has a building footprint on this site, owner O. Bump.
• 1874 Jacob Petty, Lots 3, 4, 7 & 8, assessed value $120.
• 1875 as above.
• 1880 Arvilla Petty, Lot 3 Block 5, assessed value $400.
• 1883 Arvilla Petty, Lot 3 Block 5, assessed value $400.
• 1884 Sarah Stevens, as above.
• 1888 As above.
• 1914 Henry Hoyt, Lot 3 Block 5, assessed value $900.
• 1920 as above.
• 1935 H. J. Hoyt.
• 1937 as above.
• 1940 Earl Terry, Lot 94.
• 1956 Earl Terry.