47 Church St.
North side of street
This was probably one of Clarkston's earliest Greek Revival style houses, built circa 1855, for/by Evens Buzzell.
This circa 1850 Greek Revival style house was in the Gulick family for three generations beginning with Almeda Hammond, Mrs. Henry Gulick II. (Henry I, from New Jersey, was one the earliest settlers in Independence Township. Henry gave Gulick Lake, in Section 28 of Independence Township, its name.) The 1872 Map of the Village which has a building footprint on this site listed Charles Bower as the owner then. His estate of 1884 listed a house, assessed value $1,000; a store, assessed value $1,200 (on Main St.); and a cider mill in Independence Township. The original 1 & 1/2 story with single story wing section of the house is in the style of the Midwestern farmhouse Greek Revival adaptation like many in the Village. Additions include the wing to the west, and on the east a dining room, kitchen, family room and back porch. The elements of the Greek Revival style may be seen in the broken pediment with deep cornice on the 1 & 1/2 story wing; recessed porch; and symmetrically placed windows. The house is still clad in the original wood clapboard. On the interior, the dining room ceiling is vaulted. This is an unusual detail for a small farm house. However such ceilings exist in other houses of the Village, the result of local talent , and probably all done about the same time, circa 1880.
Official Property Description:
- Part of Lots 8 & 9 Block 2 & a part of vacated Franklin St. of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat of the Village in the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
- Lot 19 of the Assessor's Plat.
Significant Property History:
- 1831 United States to Butler Holcomb.
- 1833 Butler Holcomb & wife, Mary To Roswell/Roosevelt Holcomb, the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20.
- 1833 Butler Holcomb & wife, Mary To Roswell/Roosevelt Holcomb, and wife, Elvine Holcomb, and Daniel B. Holcomb and wife, Alimira to Jeremiah Clark, the south part of the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20.
- 1839 Jeremiah Clark to Nelson Washington Clark, the undivided 1/2 of the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20 commencing.......
- 1842 Jeremiah Clark & wife, Polly to Nelson W. Clark, the south part of the west 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 20. Also other land.
- 1842 Jeremiah Clark & Nelson W. Clark to Village of Clarkston (Original plat of the Village).
- 1850 Eleazer James, Lot 9 Block 2, assessed value $60.
- 1859 Evens Buzzell, south by Church St., east by Nelson W. Clark, west by J. Paddock, north by O. A. Frazer, M. J. Clark & Sarah Vantine, assessed value $340.
- 1867 E. C. Bartlett, south by Church St., east by T. H. Stuart/Stewart, west by Paddock, north by Mrs. Derrick & land of George Demerest, & south by Vantine, assessed value $400.
- 1869 E. C. Bartlett, south by Church St., east by S. Demerest, north by C. A. Allen, west by Paddock, assessed value $350.
- 1870 as above.
- 1871 Mrs. Barlett, east by T. Johnson, north by S. Demerest.
- 1884 Charles Bower,estate.
- 1904 Charles Bower,estate.
- 1918 A.L. Gulick, north by Gulick & Johnson, east by J. Petty estate, south by Street, west by Urch, assessed value $1000.
- 1924 William Gulick inherits from Almeda Gulick
- 1935 William Gulick, the east 66' of Lots 5,8 &9, Block 2 & part of vacated Franklin St., described as beginning at the southeast corner of Lot 9 Block 2 then north 198', east 29', south 198', west 29', assessed value $600.
- 1948 William Gulick.
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