148 North Main Street

Oral history has it that in 1840 one of Clarkston's earliest schools stood on this site. Clara Anderson was the teacher. By 1856 the property belonged to Dr. Horace Robinson. This was probably the site of his home. Dr. Robinson and Dr. Nelson Abbey were the first to engage in the drug business in the Village in a building on the northeast corner of N. Main & E. Washington Streets. Dr. Robinson died in a hunting accident in 1863. The 1872 Map of the Village has a building footprint on this site the configuration of which conforms to many of the simple early Midwestern adaptations of the Greek Revival style houses built in the area. That is, an L-shaped footprint. No pictures of this house are available. The property remained in the Robinson family until 1930 when it was sold to Frank Leonard and brothers, Ed. A. and Joseph J. Seeterlin. (These three men had car dealerships on the southeast corner of S. Main St. and E. Church St.) Here they entered into a lease with Standard Oil Co. and the present Tudor Revival style building & driveways were constructed at a cost of $6,000.00. According to the Historic Building/Structure Inventory Form - "When this property was first operated as a gasoline station it was very well landscaped with a water fountain, and looked very much like a home".