Walking Tour-Robertson Court -Walking Tour
(Entrance On East Side of Main Street)

In 1872, the property of Dr. Charles Gray Robertson, the houses on either side of what is now Robertson Court, & the land north to Clarkston - Orion Rd. belonged to J. R. Vliet. The footprint of Vliet's house, now 116 N. Main, is also on the 1872 map.

The 1896 map shows the property of Dr. Charles Gray Robertson who by then owned most of Vliet's property. The strip between George Vliet to the south & Edwin Jefferson to the north is where Dr. Robertson built his house. (1904 tax entry: C. G. Robertson, estate, north by Nettie Reese & the highway, east by Park Lake & J. Stoddard, south by J. Reese & the Union School, west by Joseph & Mrs. Nettie Reese, assessed value $1200.) (Dr. Robertson died in 1907.) The main section of the house was moved to 10 Robertson Ct. (See photo, page 69, Heritage). The kitchen wing was moved to 16 Clarkston-Orion Rd. forming the core of the house on that site. The original site of Robertson's house became Robertson Court, the entrance to the rest of his land which was subdivided as the Park Lake Subdivision.

Official Property Description:

• Part of the northwest 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 of Independence Township, not a part of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat of the Village.
• Park Lake Subdivision

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.
• 1831 Butler Holcomb.
• 1837 Jeremiah Clark.
• 1849 Nelson W. Clark, the west part of the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20, assessed value $150.
• 1859 Joel Griffith, the north part of the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20, assessed value $175.
• 1856 Joseph Harris.
• 1861 Mary Ann Harris, north & west by the highway, east by Morrison, south by Cochran, assessed value $800.
• 1862 J. R. Vliet, assessed value $800.
• 1872 Map of the building shows no building footprint on this site, owner George W. Vliet.
• 1873 G. W. Vliet, assessed value $300.
• 1880 G. W. Vliet, assessed value $700.
• 1896 Map, owner G. W. Vliet.
• 1904 Joseph Reese, north & east by Robertson, south by the Union School, assessed value $900.
• 1911 as above, assessed value $1100.
• 1914 Chelson A. Gibson.
• 1918 David Teggerdine.
• 1923 Eugene Vliet. The residence of Mr. & Mrs. George Harris.