24 South Holcomb St.
East side of street
There is no footprint of a building on this site on the 1872 Map of the Village. Until 1917 this lot was a part of the property of the house to the north. There certainly was a building of some kind here by 1872 since assessed values for the two properties doubled from 1878 to 1889 indicating perhaps the construction of this house, or major changes to this building, and the one to the north. The enclosed front porch, probably constructed about 1920, has a native stone foundation. In the early 1990s, as part of a plan to restore the house, a two story wing was added to the south & east.
Official Property Description:
- Lot 7 Block 15 of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat Of the Village in the Southwest 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
- Lot 4 Block 1 of Myron G. Cobb's Southwest Addition to the Original Plat of the Village.
- Lot 86 of the Assessor's Plat.
Significant Property History:
- Note: All the properties currently located in the Historic District were originally part of a tract registered by Butler Holcomb with the federal government on October 22, 1831. Thus, abstracts for these properties, when they exist, show the original transfer to be from the United States to Butler Holcomb and may also include references to then President Andrew Jackson.
- 1842 Nelson W. Clark, Original Plat of the Village.
- 1843 N. W. & Phidelia Clark to Polly Clark, Blocks 13, 14, 15 & 16; & Lots 3, 4, 5, & 6 Block 18.
- 1844 Nelson W. Clark, Block 15, assessed value $15.
- 1848 Polly Clark, Blocks 13, 14, 15, & 16, assessed value $76.
- 1854 Cobb's Plat of the Southwest Addition.
- 1855 Wm. Brown. Lot 4 Block 1, assessed value $40.
- 1856 Jedediah Yeager/Yager. Lots 3 & 4, assessed value $90.
- 1859 George J. Stuart, a piece bound on the west by the street of public highway, on the north by the north line on Lot 3 Block 1 in the Southwest Addition, on the east by E. S. Hirst/Hurst, on the south by the highway, assessed value $40.
- 1860 Josiah Truesdell.
- 1872 Map of the Village has no building footprint on this lot, owner W. H.
- 1873 Wm. Holcomb, Lots 3 & 4 Block 1, assessed value $250.
- 1878 as above, assessed value $300.
- 1880 as above, assessed value $600.
- 1883 Elmer Vliet, .as above.
- 1884 John Hempstead as above.
- 1893 "S. C." /C. S. Dewey, Lots 3 & 4, assessed value $500.
- 1914 as above.
- 1917 Charlotte S. Dewey, estate. Lot 4, assessed value $900.
- 1920 Charlotte S. Dewey, estate. Lot 4, assessed value $1500.
- 1923 Mrs. Nancy Struble, lot 4, assessed value $1500.
- 1925 M. Swain, assessed value $1400.
- 1928 as above, assessed value $1300.
- 1930 as above, assessed value $1200.
- 1940 as above, assessed value $800.
- 1950 Dorothea Gaynor, Lot 86.
- 1956 Howard Altman.
