Walking Tour-180 North Main Street-Walking Tour
(East Side of Street)

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:

[A Synopsis Of Property Transfers Derived From Abstracts
(when available) And Periodic Changes In Ownership Or
Assessed Value Derived From Township Tax Records]

• 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.
• 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.