Walking Tour-52 North Main Street-Walking Tour
(East Side of Street)

The north half of this late Victorian Stick Style derivative house was built about 1888 for Edwin M. Clark, great grandson of Jeremiah Clark. Edwin, with son Lee, owned and operated the Vulcan Art Metal Works in the stone building they built in 1915 at 64 S. Main St. Edwin Clark's first business was in Detroit. Reportedly Clark intended the original section of this house to be only half of his finished home, but the house was used only as a summer home and was never finished. (See the Building/Structure Inventory Form, Site #8). The size of the house was doubled in 1969 when the south half was added. Before the addition, a porch at the rear of the house was remodeled adding 12' high groin arches designed by the owner.

Official Property Description:

• Lot 12 of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat, Block 23 in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
• Lot 32 of the Supervisor's Replat of the the Northwest Addition and part of the Original 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.
• 1844 Nelson W. Clark, Block 23, assessed value $60.
• 1846 Nelson W. Clark, Blocks 23 & 24, assessed value $250.
• 1847 Nelson W. Clark, Block 23, assessed value $50.
• 1848 Nelson W. Clark, Block 23, assessed value $15.
• 1849 Nelson W. Clark, Block 23, assessed value $50.
• 1850 Nelson W. Clark, Block 23, assessed value $100.
• 1855 Washington Clark Scranton.
• 1856 Washington Clark Scranton.
• 1857 as above, assessed value $600.
• 1864 W. C. Scranton, a piece bound on the east by ParkLake, north by M.H. Clark, west by the highway, south by _, assesed value $550.
• 1865 Nicholas Bonaparte Smith, as above,.
• 1872 Map of the Village, no building footprint on this site, owner, N. B. Smith.
• 1880 N. B. Smith, east by Park Lake, south by J. Goodenough, west by the Highway, north by M. J. Clark, assessed value 1000.
• 1881 as above, assessed value $1200.
• 1886 as above, assessed value $850.
• 1888 E. M. Clark, north by N. B. Smith, east by Park Lake, south by J. Goodenough, assessed value $800.
• 1889 E. M. Clark, as above, assessed value $800.
• 1892 E. M. Clark, as above, assessed value $800.