I saw this old house in Clio a few years ago. I was intrigued by the shutters on the windows. I think it is gone now but I bet it could tell some stories of walls could talk.
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I saw this old wood and stone house near the ghost town of McClure. I bet it was a beautiful house when it was constructed and I love the fieldsne walls. I bet if they could talk I can only imagine the stories they would tell.
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When Santa is not at his workshop in the North Pole he can sometimes be found at his house in downtown Midland. Santa greets visitors through the holiday season listening to wishes from children.
The house is also home to the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School. In 1937, Charles W. Howard a farmer in Albion, New York established a Santa school in direct response to his displeasure with seeing other Santas in frayed suits and cheap beards, and an inadequate knowledge of reindeer. In 1968 the school was moved to Bay City and then eventually to the Santa House in Midland. About 300 students visit the school every year.
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I saw this old farmhouse near the town of Chase. It looks as if it has been a long time since a Christmas tree was set up inside.
P.S. as always I only take pics from the road and do not trespass.
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This massive red and white brick house stands behind the historic Eaton County Courthouse in Charlotte. It was built in 1873 and was used as a residence for the sheriff and his family. A large jail complex stood off the back of the house but it was demolished in the 1990s and the house was converted into commercial office space.
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I saw this old house in the town of Lexington along Lake Huron. Unfortunately, I was unable to find any history or info about the home. It is a beautiful queen ann style house. Maybe it’s just me but I think the most underrated place in Michigan is the stretch along Lake Huron north of Port Huron. There are some really nice towns along the shoreline including Port Sanilac, Harbor Beach, Port Hope and of course Lexington.
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I was roaming around Marshall Michigan admiring all the old historic homes when I came across this pale yellow house blanketed in golden Autumn leaves. I figured it was an important house with the historical marker standing in the front yard. It reads:
Oliver C. Comstock Jr. (1806-1895) built this Gothic Revival house between 1849 and 1856. Comstock, born in Fairfield, New York, migrated to the Marshall area in 1836. He left a well-established medical practice in Trumansburg, New York, to start anew on the Michigan frontier. Later that year, he erected the first brick business building in Calhoun County on Exchange Street. It housed his pharmacy and office.
Oliver C. Comstock Jr. served as the state’s third superintendent of public instruction (1843-45). In 1847 he was one of the abolitionists who prevented Kentucky slaveholders’ taking the fugitive slave family of Adam Crosswhite. In 1848 he and several prominent Marshall citizens were convicted and fined for conspiracy to harbor the fugitives. Comstock was superintendent of the construction of the Michigan Central Railroad between Jackson and Kalamazoo and a founder of the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society.
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This old log cabin stands near the Shiawassee River next to the Curwood Castle. It was the first permanent residence in the settlement that became Owosso. Built in 1836, it was the home of Judge Elias Comstock and his wife, Lucy Lamson Comstock. The cabin was the site of the first church services (Baptist) as well as the first school classes and the place where newly arrived settlers could stay until their cabins were built. Each cabin required the owner to fell forty logs after which the men of the settlement would gather to erect a cabin in one day.
The Comstocks continued to build onto their little cabin. Eventually, it was completely framed in by the house they lived in until their deaths in 1886 and 1890. The home sold a few times until the property was purchased in the 1920s for the location of a gas station. When the house was demolished the original log cabin was discovered as part of the home and used as a living room. That is when it was moved to Bently Park where it stands today.
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I think this has to be one of Michigan’s most unique houses. It is near Lake Huron south of Lexington. This one-of-a-kind house was hand-built using stones and sand from Lake Huron by Valentine Falzon, a stonemason from Malta. The Eiffel Towers and Leaning Tower Of Pisa on the fence is an interesting design element.
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I saw this log cabin standing in Milford’s Southside Park next to the fire station. It looks like an old log cabin but according to the plaque on the front, it was built in 1982 by volunteers to celebrate the town’s sesquicentennial.
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