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Lapeer: As the center of Lapeer's early religious gatherings and the oldest platted section of the city, it includes five different church structures dating from 1881 to 1911. The majority of properties in the district are single-family dwellings dating from 1830 to 1850. 17: Pioneer State Bank No. 36: Pioneer State Bank No. 36: April 22, 1982
The house was built for prominent local businessman Joseph Armstrong, who moved to the United States from Ireland in 1871. In 1872, he moved to Lapeer in part due to the expanding railroad in the area. He opened a dry goods store that he operated for the next 37 years before retiring. He purchased the site of his home in 1886 and contracted a ...
This house was constructed for Peter Van Dyke in 1873. In 1880, Samuel J. Tomlinson, editor of The Lapeer Clarion, moved from his previous house to this one. Later, Frances and Mary Ellen Hunter purchased this house and in 1924 opened it as a private hospital. It operated as a hospital until 1953. It was later refurbished into apartments.
Columbus Tuttle arrived in Lapeer in 1853, and soon after constructed a house at this location. He founded a planing mill in Lapeer some time before 1860. The mill originally served the local market, but as Lapeer grew and the railroads were built through, Tuttle expanded to supply a wider market.
Phineas and Enoch White were two of Lapeer's original pioneering settlers. Jay White, one of their descendants, was born in 1869. This house was apparently constructed for him and his wife, Emma Gale, in 1899 or 1900, when the couple was in Hanover, Germany, serving as US Consul. It was then sold to George H. Cary, the owner of the Marshall ...
John Hevener was born in 1842. In the mid-1860s, he became a business partner of Enoch J. White, one of Lapeer's founding settlers. The two men founded and ran a highly successful general store. Henever served at various times as Mayor of Lapeer, Superintendent of the County Poor, Board of Education Secretary, and Trustee of School District #2 ...