180 North Main St.
East side of street
This property remained vacant until this house was moved to the site in 1988
This house originally was built on the southeast corner of Dixie Highway and White Lake Rd. Reportedly the house was built by Ephriam Addis in 1876 on the site of G. W. VanSyckle's log cabin. However research on that piece of property raises questions. VanSyckle was one of the area's early settlers as was Peter Addis, father of Ephriam. By 1856 he owned 80 acres in the east 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 30 of Independence Township, assessed value $1000. Vansyckle still owned this property in 1872, 142 acres, assessed value $1700. The Map of Independence Township of that year shows a square building footprint on the site then. In 1876 Ephriam Addis was listed for the same 124 acres with the same value. The value does not change is the next few years. Addis sold the property in 1887/88. The original section of the house which faces N. Main St. was built in the Gothic Revival style. In its former location it served as a gift shop in the 1940s, The Old Farm Shop & as a residence & gift shop later, Boothbys.
Official Property Description:
- Part of the west 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 20 of Independence Township, not a part of Nelson W. Clark's Original Plat of the Village.
- Lot 17 of the Supervisor's Plat No.1.
Significant Property History:
- 1844 Ebenezer Clark, the west 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 20, assessed value $200. Jacob Walter, 1 acre in the corner of the southwest 1/4 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 20, assessed value 420.
- 1847 Joseph Chapman the west 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 20, assessed value $150.
- 1848 Joseph Chapman, the west 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4, assessed value $169.
- See 174/176 N. Main for tax history.
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