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This inn, originally called the "Sleeping Bear House," was built in 1857 by C.C. McCarthy. It operated as a boarding house and hotel through the rest of the 19th century, and well into the 20th. It eventually closed in 1973, and was purchased, along with the remainder of Glen Haven, by the National Park Service. 23
Giles Gilbert was a significant figure in the lumbering business in Stanton in the late 1860s-early 1880s. In 1877, he built this house for his own use, and lived there until 1882, when he moved to Mecosta, Michigan, to continue lumbering. The house in Stanton was later owned by James Willet, another prominent lumberman and mayor of Stanton. 2
“The new ‘mushroom house design’, conceived on a napkin by the new owner, took nearly 2 years to finalize. Specialized timber work, carefully erected with every beam layer, is unique and ...
The Lieblein House is rectangular, two-and-a-half-story Queen Anne–style house built in 1895 by William Washburn, who owned a local Hancock clothing store. The house has been converted to an office building for Finlandia University and is known as the Hoover Center. 27: John J. Michels House: John J. Michels House: August 5, 1991
Location of Saginaw County in Michigan. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Saginaw County, Michigan. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Saginaw County, Michigan, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
The original section of this house was built by fur trader and Sault pioneer John Johnston in 1815, after his first house was burned by American troops in retaliation for Johnston's aid of British forces in the War of 1812. Johnston built an 1822 addition for his daughter Jane and her husband Henry Rowe Schoolcraft in 1822. In 1910, a tree fell ...
He lived in the house until 1891, after which a succession of other farmers, and then tenants, lived in the house. In 1964, the house was purchased by the Macomb Child Guidance Center, and later the city of Sterling Heights bought the building and in 1981-82, atrestored the exterior and converted the interior into public offices.
March 7, 1973 (Lone Pine Rd. Bloomfield Hills: The Cranbrook Educational Community was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth.The campus began as a farm, purchased in 1904, and now consists of Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of Science and Cranbrook House and Gardens.