32 Parking Lot South Main St.

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East side of street

The site south of 32 South Main is now a parking lot. Historically tax records indicate that there was a building here by 1855, owner George Perry. By 1858 the building became Richard Broomfield/Bloomfield's (both spellings were recorded in the tax records) wagon shop and the site of his home. According to an article in a 1938 Clarkston News, Mr. and Mrs. Broomfield moved from a farm, first to a house which later became the Baptist Parsonage, then to a house on this site built between 1872 (see map) and 1880 when the property's assessed value was high enough to indicate a building. The map shows a wagon shop on the northwest corner of the west 1/2 of Lot 3. The Broomfield family owned this property until after the turn of the century. The house, a Victorian Style building, was moved in 1933 to its present location at 6129 S. Main (Lot 62, Section 29, Clarkston Estates). Dates of the move conflict. The house may have been moved as early as 1933.

Official Property Description: 
  • The west 1/2 of Lot 3 Block 8 in the southeast 1/4 of section 20 in Independence Township.
  • Lot 59 of the Assessor's Plat.

     

Significant Property History: 
  • 1850 Nelson Abbey, Lot 3 Block 8, assessed value $20.
  • 1855 George Perry, the west 1/2 of Lot 3, assessed value $230.
  • 1855 John G. Owen, Lot 6 assessed value $500 & the south 1/2 of Lot 3 Block 8, no assessed value.
  • 1858 R. Broomfield/Bloomfield, the south 1/2 of the north 1/2 of Lot 3, assessed value $250 "wagon shop".
  • 1860 John G. Owen, Lot 6 & the south 1/2 of Lot 3 "dwelling" and "occupied together.
  • 1860 R. Broomfield/Bloomfield, the south 1/2 of the north 1/2 of Lot 3, assessed value $330.
  • 1870 R. Broomfield, assessed value $525.
  • 1872 Map of the Village shows the footprint of a wagon shop on the northwest corner of the west 1/2 of Lot 3, owner, Broomfield. R. Broomfield, Lot 6 & 1/2 of Lot 3 Block 8, assessed value $550, the north 1/2 of the west 1/2 of Lot 3 Block 8, assessed value $250. & 8' off the south side of the west 1/2 of Lot 2 Block 8, assessed value $25.
  • 1875 R. Broomfield/Bloomfield, as above, & a piece in Southeast 1/4 of Section 20.
  • 1878 Broomfield /Bloomfield, as above, & a piece south of the Union School on N. Main.
  • 1880 R. Broomfield, Lot 6 & the south 1/2 of Lot 3 Block 8, assessed value $1200. the north 1/2 of the west 1/2 of Lot 3 Block 8, assessed value $400. 8' off the south side of the west 1/2 of Lot 2, assessed value $20. N. Main St. site, assessed value $300
  • 1883 R. Broomfield, the north 1/2 of the west 1/2 of Lot 3 Block 8, and 8' off the south side of the west 1/2 of Lot 2 Block 8, assessed value $400. Mrs. J.D. Benjamin, Lot 6 & the south 1/2 of Lot 3 Block 8, assessed value $900.
  • 1884 R. Broomfield, north 1/2 of the west 1/2 of Lot 3 Block 8, & 8'as above, assessed value $700.
  • 1886 R. Broomfield, as above, assessed value $500.
  • 1892 R. Broomfield, as above, & Lot 3 Block 26, assessed value $120, and other prop.
  • 1905 R. Broomfield Estate,-"Florence and Lottie", assessed value $700.
  • 1906 Florence and Charlotte Broomfield, assessed value $700.
  • 1909 Florence Edgar and Charlotte Broomfield, assessed value $700.
  • 1910 A.K.and Florence Edgar, assessed value $800.
  • 1911 as above, assessed value $1000.
  • 1914 as above, assessed value $1200.
  • 1917 L.S. Voorheis, the north 1/2 of the west 1/2 of Lot 3 and the south 8'Lot 2, assessed value $1000.
  • 1925 A. Landi, the north 1/2 of the west 1/2 of Lot 3 and 8', assessed value $1900.
  • 1926 Anthony Landi, as above, assessed value $1900.
  • 1933 Anthony Landi, as above, assessed value $1500.
  • 1932 Anna Landi, assessed value $1000.
  • 1935 Beattie, Robert, Marg., John, Ruth, and Ida Mae, the south 9 Feet of the west 83' of Lot 2 & the north 41' of the west 83' of Lot 3, assessed value $1300.
  • 1939 House which was on this lot was moved to 6129 S. Main
  • 1935 Ida Mae Beattie, Et.al., assessed value $1300.
  • 1937 as above, assessed value $700.
  • 1938 as above, assessed value $600.
  • 1941 Ida Mae Beattie, Lot 59, assessed value $400.
  • 1943 R.C. Beattie and wife, assessed value $400.