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The Manchester Castle House

Posted on April 6, 2014 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Houses, small towns .

Driving thru Manchester I noticed this odd looking house down one of the side streets so of course I had to turn around and check it out. It looks like a castle and is not your typical looking house. I searched google and the only thing I found was a photo of a postcard on Flickr circa 1910 and that it was built by A.J. Wright, other than that I could not find anything else. It is truly an unique looking house and who would not want to live in a castle, especially a little boy or girl.

The Manchester Castle House decorated for Halloween last fall

Mystery House on Marlette Road

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Forgotten Places, Houses .

I saw this old house on Marlette road with a cross in the yard between Marlette and Cliffford Michigan. It’s hard to read in the photo, but I could make out Donna carved into the cross. Who was Donna, did she live here? did she die in a roadside accident and someone put up a cross and a wreath. I see a lot of old abandoned houses around Michigan, but very seldom do I have a named associated with it. It makes this house seem so much more real and that someone lived and raised a family here.

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Old Lapeer Hospital Mansion

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Historic Places, Houses .

I saw this beautiful old second empire mansion in Lapeer. I looks like it has been converted into apartments now, but doing a little research on google, I found some websites that say it was the old Lapeer Hospital. I am surprised a house like this does not have a Michigan Historical Marker in front of it. I wonder if it was built as a hospital or if it was built for someone as a residence, then used as a hospital, like the Ammi Wright house in Alma. Anyways its a beautiful house, so I stopped to get a pic of it, since they don’t build them like that anymore.

Charles G. Learned House – Michigan Historical Marker

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Houses, Michigan Historical Markers .

Charles G learned House

A native of New York, contractor Charles G. Learned helped build New York City’s water-works system and the Erie Canal. Around 1837 Learned and his brother-in-law purchased several thousand acres of pine land in Michigan’s Thumb area. Two years later, Learned and his wife, Maria Raymond, came to Port Austin and bought a house and three acres at this site. Learned’s cutover pine land became a 2,000-acre farm where he prospered as an agriculturalist and dairy farmer. With profits from his lumbering and farming enterprises Learned enlarged and updated this house in the French Second Empire style. In the 1860s Ohio congressman, later president, James A. Garfield, a family friend, was a frequent guest here. From 1931 to 1979 the house served as the Mayes Inn and Tower Hotel.

Charles G. Learned House in Port Austin Michigan

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