42 North Main St.
East side of street
While there was a building of some kind on this site by 1872, this Vernacular Style house was built for Dr. and Mrs. Goodenough by 1880. The original section of the house served as his office and residence.
The research done for the Historic Buidling/Structure Inventory Form in the 1970s listed 1871 as the construction date and Dr.Goodenough as the builder/owner. The 1872 map shows N. B. Smith as the owner then. This agrees with tax information which listed N. B. Smithfor property described as north to Clark, south to Millard, assessed value $775. Note the rectangle on the map close to Main St., a building, probably the core of Dr. Goodenough's house/office. Dr. Goodenough was not listed in the tax rolls for this property until 1877 when he was taxed for 74' front on Main, assessed value $150. In 1878 he had 110' front on Main, assessed value $300. The assessed value had rised to $1000 by 1880. It would seem the house was built between 1877 & 1880. The house served as Dr. Goodenough's office & residence. The house was originally a simple vernacular farmhouse style. A photo of the house at the turn of the century may be seen in a 4/20/1967 Clarkston News article about Dr. Goodenough written by Constance Lektzian. The false window treatment in the street-facing gable & the scalloped trim of the porch were added in the early 1960s.
Official Property Description:
- Lake St. on the north side of this lot and Lot 1 & part of Lot 2 Block 23 of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat of the Village in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
- Lot 33 of the Supervisor's Replat of the Northwest Addition and part of the Original Plat.
Significant Property History:
- 1844 Nelson W. Clark, Block 23, assessed value $60, and Lot 1 Block 19, asessed value $3 and Lot 2 Block 19, assessed value $2.
- 1846 Nelson W. Clark, Blocks 23 & 24, assessed value $250, and Lots 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 Block 19, assessed value $8.
- 1847 Nelson W. Clark, Block 23, assessed value $50, and Lot 1 Block 19, assessed value $5.
- 1848 Nelson W. Clark, Block 23, assessed value $15.
- 1849 Nelson W. Clark, Block 23, assessed value $50.
- 1850 N. W. Clark assessed value $100.
- 1855 Washington Clark Scranton commencing at a point 36 rods (594') north of the southwest corner of Block 19 then south 16 rods (264'), then east 10 rods(165'), then northeasterly along Park Lk.
- 1859 W. C. Scranton, "house and shop".
- 1865 N. B. Smith, assessed value $600.
- 1870 N. B. Smith, assessed value $775.
- 1872 Map of the Village shows three building footprints north of the stream. The one on N. B. Smith's property is a rectangle with the long side close to N. Main St. the location of the original section of the house on the lot now.
- 1877 Goodenough, 74' front on Main, assessed value $150.
- 1878 Goodenough, 110' front on Main, assessed value $300.
- 1880 Goodenough, 110' front, assessed value $1000.
- 1885 Goodenough, 110' front, assessed value $800. He also had a piece north by highway, west by J. Fleming, south by Park Lake, east by C. J. Robinson, assessed value $50 (this is on Clarkston Road)].
- 1889 Goodenough, 110' v.550 Goodenough, 110' v.1100
- 1896 Map. 108', assessed value $1600 (He also owns a piece in Section 17).
- 1909 Emma Goodenough.
- 1914 Emma Goodenough, assessed value $1000, but Eleanor Garter (the daughter of Dr. Goodenough, and the first wife of Henry Garter) is penciled in.
- 1924 Eleanor Garter, north by E. M. Clark, south by the Collins Bros., assessed value $1700.
- 1927 Eleanor Garter had the property all the way to the oulot.
- 1933 Eleanor and Henry Garter.
- 1935 Henry and Grace Garter (second wife).
- 1941 Henry L. Garter.
- 1956 Grace Garter.
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