Sacred Heart Hall, designed by Detroit architect Peter Dederichs, was built in 1922 to house Saint Joseph’s College. In 1919 Mother Camilla Madden and the Adrian Dominican Sisters founded Saint Joseph’s College as a liberal arts and teacher training . . . — — Map (db m180274) HM
This Greek Revival mansion
was built in 1851
for David Carpenter,
one of Lenawee County's most
prominent early residents.
Born in New York State,
he moved to Blissfield in
1838, and became a wealthy
farmer and merchant. After his
death in . . . — — Map (db m161197) HM
In 1883, Blissfield banker Hiram D. Ellis (1826-1900)
built this house. The bracketed cornice, hip roof and
bay window reflect the influence of Italianate architecture; the classical porch
probably was added in the early twentieth . . . — — Map (db m165593) HM
This limestone cross and base
were part of the reconstruction
of St. Peter The Apostle in 1927.
Total weight of the cross and base
is over 5500 pounds. Due to aging
of the bell tower structure, they were
removed and placed in front of . . . — — Map (db m187564) HM
Jira Payne House
This Greek Revival house was built around 1840 by Jira Payne, owner of the Atlas sawmill. The twin fluted Ionic columns, flanked by square Doric piers, were hand hewn from trees on this property. Emil Lorch, . . . — — Map (db m104924) HM
Riverside Mortuary Chapel
This chapel, completed in 1913, embodies the dream of Cemetery Superintendent George Kies, the design of Clinton-born architect Wirt Rowland, and the artistry of the mason, a "Mr. Uhr" of Manchester. It . . . — — Map (db m104868) HM
This arch was built in 1928 by O.E. Mott. The base was constructed of hollow Terra Cotta block with cement coating to resemble rock. The 22 foot concrete arch was designed in the El Trabajo rustic style, making the 20 inch lighted Clearwater . . . — — Map (db m159991) HM
This boulder marks the location of the first house in Lenawee County erected by Musgrove Evans and his wife Abi Evans
June 2 1824
Dedicated June 2 1909
by The Pioneers Association — — Map (db m165596) HM
The Congregational Church of Tyrone, grew out of the Methodist Episcopal church that organized here in 1845. Itinerant ministers called circuit riders served what was known as the Tyrone or Cranston Class. In 1874 the class split over where to build . . . — — Map (db m178131) HM
Albert E. French designed this two-and-a-half story brick and stone building. This edifice, completed in 1890, shows influence of Richardsonian architecture and has maintained many of its original Victorian furnishings. Peter and Maria Cowdry . . . — — Map (db m107800) HM
This “House of Seven Gables” was built in 1886-87 by the farm family of Frank J. and Ada Hecox. A plastered brick wall in the basement is inscribed with Frank Hecox’s initials and the date 1887. The Hecox family left the area by 1900, and Ada sold . . . — — Map (db m174718) HM
Biddle House. The Biddle House is one of the oldest structures on Mackinac Island, dating to the 1780s. It is an example of piece sur piece en coulisse construction, a frame structure with a log infill fitted into slots. This French Canadian . . . — — Map (db m204427) HM
Opened on July 10, 1887, the Grand Hotel was built by the Grand Rapids & Indiana and the Michigan Central railroads and the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Company through the efforts of Sen. Francis B. Stockbridge. It is built of Michigan white . . . — — Map (db m107066) HM
Constructed for Charles O’Malley about 1852, this building was one of the first summer hotels on Mackinac Island. Captain Henry Van Allen, a Great Lakes Skipper, purchased the hotel in 1865. He later moved it from the beach to its present location. . . . — — Map (db m107061) HM
Lawrence A. Young Cottage Michigan Governor’s Summer Residence 1902 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m131760) HM
This is one of Michigan's oldest Protestant churches. It was built in 1829-30 by the Presbyterian flock of Rev. Wm. M. Ferry, founder in 1823 of a nearby Indian mission. Robert Stuart and Henry Schoolcraft were lay leaders. About 1838 private owners . . . — — Map (db m34913) HM
Erin Township's German immigrants first worshipped together in a log church amid an oak forest in 1846. The following year the Reverend John Friedrich Winkler helped organize St. Peter's church as a "country church" near Detroit. This is the third . . . — — Map (db m124572) HM
A native of Bavaria, John Baumgartner purchased this property in Erin Township in 1856, becoming one of Fraser's first landowners. Around 1866 he and his wife, Samantha, moved here with the first three of their seven children. In 1875 they erected . . . — — Map (db m110795) HM
This was the home of John & Samantha Baumgartner. John came to America from Bavaria. The beauty of this house is in its architecture, "Rundbogenstil", or "Round arched windows". The style was popular in Germany between 1840 and 1850. German . . . — — Map (db m110825) HM
Edsel Ford, president of the Ford Motor Company for many years, and his wife, Eleanor Clay, completed this 87-acre estate in 1927. Architect Albert Kahn derived the design from precedents in Cotswold, England, and many of the building materials, . . . — — Map (db m143597) HM
Edsel requested Jens Jensen build a generous playground for the children-space for sports in the summer and ice skating in the winter. By the late 1930s, the Ford children had outgrown the need for the play space.
Eleanor and Edsel asked . . . — — Map (db m212257) HM
The Fords—especially Edsel—lived in the public spotlight. They considered security and privacy to be of the utmost importance. To enter the estate, you must pass through the guarded and gated opening in the monumental Gate Lodge building. . . . — — Map (db m212261) HM
Gaukler Pointe
The home of Edsel and Eleanor Ford has been designated a National Historic Landmark
The natural prairie-stye landscape of Gaukler Pointe is nationally significant as one of the fines examples of the mature work of the style's . . . — — Map (db m212247) HM
Landscape architect Jens Jensen thought about how landscapes would look over time. He commented to Edsel. It takes years to get the real beauty out of a landscape planted… Its greatest beauty is in mature age."
Here, Jensen planned a gradual . . . — — Map (db m212253) HM
The Main Residence sits on the eastern
edge of the Gaukler Pointe taking advantage
of the views of Lake St. Clair and the
surrounding landscape created by Jens Jensen.
Architecturally, the Cotswold District in
England influenced architect . . . — — Map (db m206958) HM
The Playhouse was a gift to Josephine on her seventh birthday (1930) from her grandmother Clara Ford. Architect Robert O. Derrick designed it to complement the other buildings on the estate. In the roof gables, you can see decorative bas-relief . . . — — Map (db m212259) HM
The Fords asked architect Albert Kahn to design a support building near the Pool for informal entertaining. The Recreation Building contains a large sitting room with original furniture and a large fireplace, a small kitchen, changing rooms, and . . . — — Map (db m212255) HM
Landscape architect Jens Jensen tried to resist designing formal gardens, but Edsel told him Eleanor wanted a not-too-large, but definitely formal, garden. The result is a circular, wagon wheel like space featuring a lotus blossom fountain at its . . . — — Map (db m212256) HM
The first mayor of Mount Clemens, Josua Dickinson, built this Italianate house in 1869. His daughter Katherine (1849-1882), the great-granddaughter of city founder Christian Clemens, and his son-in-law, George M. Crocker (1848-1918), moved into it . . . — — Map (db m85660) HM
Frederick Losh opened the Grand Pacific House in 1881, during New Baltimore's golden era. The Italiante hotel and saloon was built of bricks made locally at Streits's brickyard. Losh quickly profited from the city's popularity as a summer resort. . . . — — Map (db m152070) HM
The log cabin was originally a weekend retreat for the Neilsen family and when they decided to sell the land the cabin was not included as the family wanted it kept intact. It was located on Campground and 29 Mile road in Washington Township and . . . — — Map (db m124453) HM
Built in 1887, this structure formerly served as the First Congregational Church. When the congregation merged with St. Paul's Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1973, it sold the building to the Richmond Community Theatre. That group adapted the . . . — — Map (db m123721) HM
Sanford Stone
Sanford Stone (1828-1888) came to Richmond in 1843. In 1875 he platted "Sanford M. Stone's Addition to the village of Richmond," which included Jefferson and Washington Streets between Ferguson and Beebe. Stone held many . . . — — Map (db m123722) HM
During the 1820's and 1830's pioneers from New York state and New England brought their cultural heritage to this community *** They and later settlers built homes and other structures of architectural distinction which qualified Romeo to be . . . — — Map (db m123471) HM
The Lodge is a landmark, just north of the main gates
of the Packard Proving Grounds. Designed by famous architect Albert Kahn in the English Cotswold style, it opened in 1928 as the site's base of operations. The site manager and his . . . — — Map (db m137579) HM
This Federal Style home, built by Alexander and Helen Cutrubes, remained in the family until 1978 when it was sold to Walter and Sarah Fuelberth and restored to its original glory.
The home features 9' ceilings, plaster crown moldings, 15" . . . — — Map (db m146827) HM
An American icon of modern architecture, the General Motors (GM) Technical Center stands as a model corporate research and development park. Thirty-one buildings were constructed between 1949 and 1985. Conceived in 1944 by Board of Directors . . . — — Map (db m87767) HM
This farm house was built in 1895. The architectural design is a combination of Greek Revival & Queen Anne (noted by the gables, dental moldings, fish scale shingles and fret work).
The house originally sat 200 ft. E. from it's current . . . — — Map (db m107289) HM
In 1880 many Germans left Milwaukee and settled in Manistee County. Among them was lumberman Henry Starke, who vowed to return to Wisconsin if no Lutheran church could be found. Instead he helped to organize this congregation in 1881, and he . . . — — Map (db m97463) HM
John J. Makinen, Sr., (1871-1942) Built this house out of over 60,000 pop bottles, most of which came from his business, the Northwestern Bottling Works. The bottles were laid on their sides with the bottom ends to the exterior. A native of Finland, . . . — — Map (db m154226) HM
William Le Baron Jenney, eminent Chicago architect known as the "father of the skyscraper," designed this beautiful Romanesque church. Completed in 1892, it features vibrant stained glass windows, two of which are of Tiffany design. The soaring . . . — — Map (db m231264) HM
In 1885 a group of Manistee Ladies formed the Lakeside Club, whose primary goal was to create a library. In 1902 the club joined forces with the local literary society and successfully campaigned for a public library. The Andrew Carnegie . . . — — Map (db m97376) HM
In early October 1888, the Manistee City Council hired Frederick Hollister of Saginaw, the architect of Manistee’s principal school, to design a fire hall to replace the original station, which was constructed in 1872–1873 on Filer Street. Later . . . — — Map (db m1191) HM
Organized as a Scandinavian congregation in 1868, Our Saviour's became a Danish church in 1875 and served the American Evangelical Lutheran Synod until 1962. First used for worship in 1869, the building escaped damage in the Fire of 1871 and was . . . — — Map (db m97378) HM
Thomas Jefferson Ramsdell—pioneer lawyer, state legislator and civic leader—built this theatre between 1902 and 1903. Many traveling companies played here and praised the features that made it unique among the playhouses of the era. Theatrical . . . — — Map (db m1192) HM
In the summer of 1878, this building was constructed by John Mee and leased to Clark D. Gardner. The building measures 24 × 50, described following its construction as "without exception the finest of its kind north of Grand Rapids". It was . . . — — Map (db m97402) HM
The "Haley Block" was the last of a succession of buildings in this area beginning sometime prior to 1871. These buildings were built and rebuilt to house the Haley Sisters Millinery Shop. Five successive structures burned, the first being . . . — — Map (db m97409) HM
A prominent Manistee jeweler, who's place of business was two doors west at the corner of River and Oak Streets, contracted to have the structure at 427 River Street (the west half of the current building) built in the summer of 1883. . . . — — Map (db m97407) HM
Originally built by John Thompson, the first floor housed the Russell & Ramsdell Hardware Store. The second floor was especially constructed with two large skylights to accomodate [sic] the studio of a photographer by the name of Miller. The . . . — — Map (db m97404) HM
For nearly a hundred years a small building stood across the River which looked like a Dutch windmill without a vane. The building was not a windmill at all, but instead the entrance to a utility tunnel which runs under the River. Today the . . . — — Map (db m97399) HM
Commissioned by William Janzen, this house has served residents of Marquette County since 1893. It was designed by Lovejoy and Demar, architects for the Old City Hall on Washington Street. Following a fire in 1983, Doris Seavoy Bullock donated the . . . — — Map (db m214540) HM
This Neoclassical Revival structure, designed by Charlton & Gilbert of Marquette, was constructed in 1902-04 at a cost of $210,000. Built of local sandstone, it is the second courthouse to occupy this site. In a case tried here in 1913, President . . . — — Map (db m206155) HM
Northern Michigan University's original 20 acre site was donated to the State Board of Education by John M. Longyear and Frederick Ayer in 1899. The first dormitory (1900-1917) was located to the south across Kaye Avenue. D. F. Charleton was the . . . — — Map (db m214504) HM
Patience is a virtue we are often told. But impatience spawns innovation and that's how the first iron ore pocket dock came to be. In 1857 Captain George Judson became impatient with the slow transfer of iron ore from trams on the dock to the . . . — — Map (db m216246) HM
Mason County
The first permanent Euro-American settlement in Mason County began in 1847 when New York native Burr Caswell and his family arrived at the mouth of the Pere Marquette River. The Caswells lived in a driftwood cabin near the . . . — — Map (db m97328) HM
The Fairman and Newton Block replaced the Mason House after an act of arson burned down the wooden frame hotel in 1879. Ferdinand Fairman located his banking business in the basement of his brick building, while the upper stories were reserved for a . . . — — Map (db m106840) HM
Big Rapids became the county seat in 1859 and incorporated as a city in 1869. This building, antedated by two other jails, served as the county jail and sheriff's residence from 1893 until 1965. The oldest public structure in the original plat of . . . — — Map (db m106754) HM
In 1831 the first white settlers in the area built a fur trading post near this site, called “Little Forks” by the Indians. When Midland County was organized in 1850, 65 people lived here. In 1856, Henry C. Ashmun, the county’s first . . . — — Map (db m163599) HM
The log cabin was built about 1879 and was moved to the
museum in 1971 from Five Mile Road in Averill. You can
still see the faint outlines of the street number by the
front door. The Sanford Historical Society purchased
the cabin from Byron and . . . — — Map (db m160022) HM
The Olson store was located in the town of
Olson on the northeast corner of Nine Mile and
Olson Road in Lee Township. Elva (Larson)
Smith donated the store to the Sanford
Historical Society. The building was moved to
the museum grounds in . . . — — Map (db m160012) HM
About 1823, Col. Johnson, merchant, financier and civic leader, built this home on First Street at the southeast corner of Loranger Square. Five generations of the Johnson-Phinney family lived in it before its 1960 sale to Monroe County. . . . — — Map (db m171060) HM
United States Department of the Interior
Certified Historic Property Old Village Historic District
Reborn 1986 River Raisin Properties
Limited Partnership — — Map (db m128043) HM
The Reverend Camillus P. Maes organized St. John in 1872 to serve the area's Irish population, which had struggled to form an English-speaking parish over a forty year period. In January 1892 fire destroyed the interior of the first church, erected . . . — — Map (db m169696) HM
The Reverend James O'Brien became Monroe's first Episcopal rector in late 1831. Early the next year he and his small congregation began building Trinity Church on what is now Loranger Square. Funds came from Ohio, Pennsylvanian and New York, as . . . — — Map (db m169697) HM
In 1828, German Lutheran families from Baden and Bavaria settled in and around Monroe. Served first by horseback-traveling Pastor Friedrich Schmid, these Lutherans organized a congregation known as Zoar, and several churches, including Trinity, . . . — — Map (db m169761) HM
In October 1971, the Flat River Historical Society finalized a lease and founded the Museum which opened in 1972.
In 1977, the former Central
School was demolished and the original 1912 clock was
donated to the museum. It was mounted on . . . — — Map (db m217446) HM
In 1859, Muskegon Methodists built their first church at Clay and Jefferson streets. Congregationalists met in the church, which also served as the county court. In 1887 a larger church was built on the same site. The present Neo-Gothic-style . . . — — Map (db m154387) HM
This three-story wood frame building is one of Michigan’s most splendid examples of Queen Anne architecture.
With juxtaposition of masses created by roof lines, chimneys, tower and porte-cochere it has become a symbol of Muskegon.
Fifteen . . . — — Map (db m107242) HM
On May 25, 1888, Muskegon lumber baron Charles H. Hackley announced that he would donate a library to the city. Hackley stipulated that the facility be "forever maintained as a library." Patton and Fisher of Chicago, one of the six firms invited to . . . — — Map (db m154384) HM
Built in 1887–1889, this massive Queen Anne style house served the Thomas Hume family through four generations. This architect for this, as well as the Hackley house, was David S. Hopkins of Grand Rapids. The structure behind the two buildings . . . — — Map (db m107251) HM
The Muskegon Woman's Club was founded in 1890, and dedicated to the intellectual "improvement and development" of women. The Chicago firm of Weir and Perry designed this neo classical structure, built in 1902 with funds donated by Minnie Smith, the . . . — — Map (db m241639) HM
The Roseland Park Mausoleum was the largest public mausoleum in the United States when it was dedicated in 1914. Designed by Detroit architect Louis Kamper (1861-1953), the classically inspired, two-story building contains 1,300 crypts. Before . . . — — Map (db m33026) HM
Nelson Washington Clark was a builder.
He and his brother Jeremiah joined the flow of pioneers in the 1830s from New York State to Michigan where they bought 2,000 acres of land along the Clinton River in Independence Township. Nelson and his . . . — — Map (db m128227) HM
Royal Aldrich, a native of Farmington, New York, built this two-story Greek Revival farmhouse around 1840. His father, Esek, had purchased the 320-acre site from the United States government in 1823. Esek never lived here, but sold the property to . . . — — Map (db m162376) HM
A native of Ontario County, New York, David Simmons moved to this area around 1827. Here he farmed, eventually acquiring 156 acres of land. He built this Greek Revival house around 1843. It features a field stone foundation, hand-hewn timbers and . . . — — Map (db m155832) HM
This Storybook Tudor with faux thatch roof was designed by Emily Butterfield of Farmington, Michigan's first female architect. In 1925, Great Lakes Land Corp. President Edward E. Beals developed the Oaklands subdivision emphasizing country living . . . — — Map (db m136011) HM
John Garfield built this house on his 160-acre farm around 1835. The symmetry, pilaster-framed entrance and cornice returns reflect the simplicity of the Greek Revival style. In 1846, John and Elizabeth Cox purchased the house. When John died in . . . — — Map (db m163773) HM
Constructed in 1861, this is one of the three houses that Livonia farmer Joshua Simmons had built for his three sons. Lawrence Simmons, for whom this house was built, lived here for twelve years. He, like the elder Simmons, was a farmer. The house . . . — — Map (db m160678) HM
Pennsylvania native Samuel Davis settled on this site in 1855. In 1886 Samuel and his wife, Susan Graft Davis, built this Italianate house on their 299-acre farm. The Davises engaged in general farming and raised stock, and were among Oakland . . . — — Map (db m160571) HM
Architect Marcus Burrowes designed this lovely home in 1925 for David and Martha Gray. Burrowes selected the site and built the house to blend with the land, yet retain an historic English architectural form.
The Grays never lived in the house. . . . — — Map (db m79852) HM
Stephen Yerkes Rodgers built this Greek Revival-style house in 1834. The carved fretwork in the pilasters flanking the door are reminiscent of a design in Asher Benjamin’s The Practical House Carpenter (Boston, 1830). Stephen Yerkes Rodgers . . . — — Map (db m173238) HM
Wells D. Butterfield and his daughter Emily (the state's first licensed woman architect) designed this house for Edward and Evelyn Chene. The house was built in 1927 as part of "The Oaklands," one of the first subdivisions in Farmington Township. . . . — — Map (db m135938) HM
This home, an outstanding example of cut-stone Greek Revival architecture, was constructed in 1837--the year Michigan achieved statehood--by John Dallas Harger, who came to Oakland County from Niagara, N. Y.
A son, Oscar Seeley Harger, . . . — — Map (db m160779) HM
This beautifully restored Gothic Revival farmhouse is representative of homes built by well-to-do pioneer Farmingtonians.
Migrating from Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont, in 1841, Levi and Huldah Pettibone homesteaded the surrounding . . . — — Map (db m160757) HM
In 1831, Oakland County pioneers Theron and Rebecca Murray purchased eighty acres of land from the U.S. government including this site. This Greek Revival house and the barn, constructed around 1835, were built of hand-hewn poplar beams with wooden . . . — — Map (db m163778) HM
This beautiful historic building was constructed and then destroyed by fire in 1914. Known as The Ferndale School, it was re-built in time for the 1915 school year. Eventually known as The Central School, in the 1920's it was remodeled for District . . . — — Map (db m107989) HM
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Pioneer & Merriman Apartments
Historical Site
195 W. Nine Mile
During the early development of the West Nine Mile business area, two apartment buildings were constructed. The first was the Pioneer Apartments, . . . — — Map (db m155336) HM
Squire and Dolly Rowe, who settled here in 1835, built this elegant, cut fieldstone house in 1855. The solid cobblestone, beaded mortar joint construction is highlighted by the pleasing and sophisticated use of delicate scrollwork under the eaves . . . — — Map (db m125205) HM
This Carpenter Gothic style house was built in 1879 for Joshua C. Predmore (1837-1912). A Civil War veteran, Predmore was on guard duty at the White House the night President Lincoln was assassinated. He was mustered out of the service in 1868. . . . — — Map (db m133637) HM
This landmark building commands attention
as the Pettibone Creek Hydroelectric Station. It was built in 1938-39 to harness the precious power of water for Ford's Carburetor Plant, now gone. It remains as a reminder of Milford's "village . . . — — Map (db m125348) HM
Aaron Phelps, pioneer settler and first postmaster of Milford, built this Greek Revival residence between 1836 and 1838. It was one of the first frame structures erected in the village. New York immigrant Ira Hibbard purchased the house and . . . — — Map (db m125402) HM
The Pettibone Creek Hydroelectric Station was designed by renowned architect Albert Kahn and built by Henry Ford in 1939. Over time the station became known as "The Ford Powerhouse." Decommissioned in 1953 and in declining condition, the iconic . . . — — Map (db m125362) HM
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Frederic and Priscilla Prior and four of their seven children were among Milford Township's earliest settlers. Originally from Massachusetts, the Priors came to Michigan in 1835 and settled near Sears Lake. This house was completed . . . — — Map (db m125222) HM
Colonel Samuel White
The Samuel White family was one of the first to settle in Novi Township. White (1794-1870) and his wife, Amanda (1799-1869), immigrated to this area from Royalton, New York, in 1827. White had recently retired from the . . . — — Map (db m164871) HM
The now-serene shores of Walled Lake haven't always been this quiet. From the early 1920s to the late 1960s, Novi's southern shore of Walled Lake was home to the premiere entertainment venue for metro Detroit. The catalyst was the Walled Lake . . . — — Map (db m164483) HM
This complex of buildings began as the farmstead of John Axford, who built the Greek Revival house during the 1840s. Farmer Jacob Kline purchased it in 1848, and his descendants operated the farm until 1925. During the Great Depression the bank . . . — — Map (db m97706) HM
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