Walking Tour-64 South Main Street-Walking Tour
(East Side of Street)

Historically, 1858 tax record assessed values indicate there was a building on this lot by then. The owner at the time was Mariah Sabine. There are no photos or verbal descriptions of this early building at this time. The 1872 Map of the Village shows a building in the middle of the lot (11) close to Main St., owner A. (Alexander) Young. Young was a jeweler.

In 1915, the site became the home of Vulcan Art Metal Works, the business of Edwin M. Clark and son, Lee Clark. The business was moved from Detroit to Clarkston. (See Vulcan Metalworks Catalogs in the collection of the Clarkston Community Historical Society). Vulcan constructed the metal gates for Lakeview Cemetery in the 1920s. Oral history reports a small house once stood behind the main plant facing Waldon Rd. This was the residence of Lee Clark for a time. The house was moved in the 1950s to a site on Sashabaw Rd.

Since the demise of Vulcan in 1941 the building has served several manufacturing and commercial purposes, becoming Tierra Arts and Design in the late 1980s. The bay windows on the west and south facades were added in the existing window openings, for increased window display area, in the 1990s

Official Property Description:

• Lot 11 Block 8 & (Lot 14 in 1896) of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat of the Village in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
• Lot 62 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).
• 1847 Jeremiah Clark, Lots 3, 11, 9 & 13 Block 8, assessed value $20.
• 1848 Alexander R. "Tupper", Lot 11 Block 8, assessed value $120. Taylor H. Stewart, Lot 11 Block 8, assessed value $80.
• 1849 Taylor H. Stewart, Lot 11 Block 8, assessed value $85.
• 1850 Levi Harkinson, Lot 11 Block 8, assessed value $120.
• 1858 Mariah/Maria Sabine, Lot 11 Block 8, assessed value $300.
• 1867 as above. Alexander Young personal property tax only.
• 1872 Map of the Village has a building footprint, owner, A. Young
• 1905 "Jay H. Linabury to Catherine Schelbe, Lot 11 Block 8, Clark's plat, Clarkston, $500." 5/11/1905 Oakland County Post.
• 1915 Vulcan Art Metal Works - Edwin and Lee Clark.
• 1919 E. M. Clark, Lot 11 Block 8, assessed value $3000.
• 1925 E. M. Clark, Lot 11, assessed value $3000. Lee M. Clark, Lot 14, assessed value $80.
• 1927 E. M. Clark, Lot 11, assessed value $3600. Lee M. Clark, Lot 11, assessed value $800. Lee M. Clark, the east 65' of Lot 11 Block 8, assessed value $800.
• 1933 Bank, the west 100' of Lot 11 Block 8, assessed value $2600.
• 1935 Alrey Steel Producing Co., the west 100' of Lot 11 Block 8. Lee Clark, the east 65' of Lot 11 Block 8.
• 1939 Alrey Steel Prod. Co., assessed value $1800. First Nat. Bank, E 65' Lot 11, assessed value $800.
• 1954 Infra Red-Ray Devises Inc., 66 S. Main.

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