14 North Main Street

This site was a part of the property of Jeremiah Brown in 1847. 1859 tax records cited a house & barn here belonging to Brown. Brown had a meat market north of this house. The 1872 map of the Village shows the footprint of the building. A photo, page 52, Heritageshows a Greek Revival style building with the addition of a porch across the entire Main Street facade. Emma Brown, Jeremiah's widow (a dressmaker), then Lottie/Lettie Bradley, the Brown's daughter, continued to own the property until 1935. According to an 8/30/1935 Clarkston News article, Dr. Arthur W. Shurz purchased the Bradley property just north of the Clarkston Bakery. He "will move the building north" & open a dental office. Dr. Stackable, also a dentist, occupied the building (see photo right) as his office & residence until it was destroyed in a fire in 1961. Note the tax records show that the Brown's property included the Park Lake shore line to the east as far as Buffalo St. which originally extended all the way north to the lake.