122 North Main St.

This house was built circa 1906. An item in the 2/02/1905 issue of the Oakland County Post newspaper noted "The lumber and other materials for the house that Joseph Reese will build on Main Street in the spring is being placed on the ground in readiness to begin the operation as soon as the snow goes off." Joseph Reese apparently lived in the house to the south of this, 114-116 North Main which was previously owned by his father-in-law, Edwin Jefferson. Jefferson, then Reese also owned the property to the north as far as Clarkston Road. The 4/06/1905 issue of the same newspaper noted "J Reese has the lined 'drawn' and will commence excavation for his 'now' home in this village very soon." The 8/29/1905 edition read "With the near completion of the two new Reese houses on upper Main Street in the village the boom in the building line is continuing by the beginning of a new home for A. J. Taylor, just across the street from the Reese property." (The A. J. Taylor house was/is at 135 North Main.) The newspaper of 1905 had several stories about the shortage of houses in the Village for new residents and the many 'resort people' who visited in the summer and wanted to reside here. Apparently Reese constructed the houses at 122 and 130 North Main for resale. Original photos show the house as a late Victorian building with detail in the street facing gable reminiscent of the Stick Style. There was a Queen Anne style wraparound front porch with turned wood balusters & spindles under the roof eaves which was removed at some time. The house at 135 N. Main was built for/by Austen Taylor at the same time. It was virtually a duplicate of this house. The houses at 130 & 177 N. Main, and 18 N. Holcomb all originally had a similar appearance.