69 South Holcomb St.

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West side of street

This house was apparently built circa 1880 for Jacob Petty. Architecturally it is a simple Vernacular Style farmhouse. The gable roof over the front door is a twentieth century addition. A photo from the Henry Ford Museum archives shows a larger Queen Anne front porch which was probably the original.

Official Property Description:

Part of Block 13 of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat of the Village in the Southwest 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
Lot 8 Block 5 Myron G. Cobb's Southwestern Addition to the Original Plat of the Village.
Lot 92 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.
1844 Nelson W. Clark, Block 13, assessed value $5.
1843 Nelson W. Clark & Phidelia Clark to Polly Clark, Blocks 13, 14, 15 & 16.
1848 Polly Clark, Blocks 13, 14, 15, & 16, assessed value $76.
1849 Polly Clark to Myron G. Cobb, Blocks 13, 14, 15, & 16.
1854 Myron G. Cobb's Plat of the Southwestern Addition.
1859 Charles E. Phillips, Lots 7 & 8, assessed value $80.
1864 as above.
1865 Oscar Bump, Lots 3, 4, 7 & 8, assessed value $100.
1870 Oscar Bump, Lots 3, 4, 7 & 8, assessed value $125.
1872 Map of the Village has no building footprint on this site, owner J. Brown, but tax records still say O. Bump, assessed value $125.
1873 O. F. Bump, assessed value $125.
1874 "John" Petty, Lots 3, 4, 7 & 8, assessed value $120.
1876 as above, Lots 3, 4, & 7 but Lot 8 is crossed out, assessed value $120. However, Emma Brown is pencilled in "also Lots in the Southwest Addition" (this does not appear in 1872 & 1875)
1878 "John Petty", Lot 3 (actually Lot 8) Block 5, assessed value $200.
1880 Jacob Petty, Lot 3 (actually Lot 8) Block 5, assessed value $400.
1881 Henry Brown, Lot 8 Block 5, assessed value $400.
1883 as above.
1884 Sarah Lewis.
1888 Sarah Lewis, assessed value $200.
1889 Sarah Lewis, assessed value $100.
1892 Charles Shaylor, Lot 8 Block 5, assessed value $200.
1896 Henry Landis, as above.
1898 Jennie Edgar, as above.
1902 George Edgar, Lot 8 Block 5, assessed value $400.
1903 Mary Lewis, as above.
1906 Mary Lewis, Lot 8 Block 5, assessed value $600.
1908 Emma Clark, assessed value $600.
1910 Emma Clark, assesed value $600.
1911 Emma Green, as above.
1914 Emma & Charles Green, assessed value $800.
1920 as above, assessed value $1200.
1925 E. Green, Lot 8 Block 5, assessed value $600.
1935 Emma Green, assessed value $600.
1940 Emma Green, estate.
1950 Irene Hoskins, Lot 92.
1956 John Hoskins, as above.