Walking Tour-44 East Washington Street-Walking Tour
(South Side of Street)

This property, with that of 38 E.Washington, were part of the property of the house at 7 Buffalo Street until about 1914 when tax records listed Miss Sarah P. Selden for the east 40 feet of Lot 2 and the west half of Lot 3, the site of this house. Miss Selden was Clarkston's Postmistress in 1870.

While this house was apparently built for Miss Selden it was long known as the home of LeRoy and Margaret Addis. Mr. Addis, like his father before him, was the owner/proprietor of a store, the Addis soda shop and candy store on the southeast corner of South Main and East Washington Streets, 2 South Main.

Architecturally it is a Vernacular Style house with original woodwork on the interior. A two story addition was constructed to the rear facade of the house in 1978. Aluminum siding covers the original wood clapboard.

Official Property Description:

• The east part of Lot 2 & Lot 3, Block 2 of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat of the Village in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
• Lot 13 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.
• 1832 Butler Holcomb, the Northeast 1/4, the Southeast 1/4, the east 1/2 of the Northwest 1/4 and the east 1/2 of the Southwest 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.
• 1835 Butler Holcomb 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).
• 1846 Wm. V. Briggs, the north 1/2 of Lot 2, assessed value $50, and the south 1/2 of Lot 3, assessed value $5, Block2.
• 1847 W. W. Rundell, Lot 2 Block 2, assessed value $45 and Lot 3 Block 2, assessed value $40.
• 1848 Watson W. Rundell, the north 1/2 of Lot 3 and Lot 2, Block 2, assessed value $105.
• 1849 G. B. & A. J. Selden, Lot 3 and Lot 2 Block 2, assessed value $105.
• 1850 G. B. & A. H. Selden.
• 1857 Enos Church
• 1872 Map of the Village has a building footprint which is partially on Lot 2, owner William H. Smith.
• 1914 Sarah Selden , the east 40' off Lot 2 & the west 1/2 of Lot 3.
• 1919 Sarah Selden, as above, assessed value $1000.
• 1920 Roy Addis, as above, assessed value $1500.
• 1952 Roy Addis, as above.