I saw this old house near Posen enjoying the warm winter sun. It looks as if it has been a long time since it was heated from the inside. I drive past these old houses and always wonder about the people who built it and the life they lived. Way back when it must have
This unique looking house sits near the center of Marshall. It was built by Abner Pratt, a former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Under President James Buchanan he served as United States Consul to Hawaii. After returning from the Hawaiian Islands in 1860 he built this palace-like home in Marshall to look like
A few miles south of Unionville is an old schoolhouse. Above the door is the lettering 1909 Columbia Dist. No. 2. Most of the old schools I find have the date when they were constructed, but I have never seen the date when they closed. I am not sure when this old schoolhouse last taught children
This beautiful old brick house sits in St Louis. It was built in 1884 by Narcissa Paige the owner of the Paige House hotel in St. Louis. Narcissa could see her hotel from the windows in the tower. Her daughter daughter Lillian lived with her, and she married George Charles who owned a drug store
This old brick church stands among the farm fields between Freeland and Bay City. A few modern houses and this old church are all that stand in the area of the old town of Amelith. Frederick Koch purchased two thousand acres of the former Saginaw Bay Chippewa Reserve at $1.25 an acre. In 1851 the
When the lakes freeze over and the ships no longer sail the waters of the Great Lakes, the lighthouses still stand vigilant along the shoreline. For the lighthouse keepers and their families, it must have been a lonely winter, especially at the lighthouses that are miles away from any town. This is the new Presque
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The village of Glen Haven is a few miles west of Glen Arbor in the Sleeping Bear Dunes. The town started out as a place for steamships to stock up on firewood to fuel the steam boilers. Over time the town became more of a resort community. By the mid 1970s it had pretty much
This old stone house sits near downtown Alma. It has a long and interesting history. It was built in 1888 by lumber baron Ammi Wright. After his death the Wright family sold the house to become Smith Memorial Hospital in 1934 and then Northwood Institute in 1959. Another interesting fact about Ammi Wright is that
The D H day Barn has to be Michigan’s most famous barn. If not the most famous the most photographed. It is across from the dune climb in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The barn was built in the 1880s and its arched roof with coned shaped silo roofs make it unique a photogenic. The
