322 N. Lewis / Wurster

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About this home

Historic Name
Wurster
USGS Map
Saline Quadrangle
Street and No.
322 N. Lewis
Municipal Unit
Saline
County
Washtenaw
Original Usage
Residence
Present Usage
Residence

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Photo Negative No.
1:17
Photo Date
Jan-94
Photo View
South and west facades. Facing northeast.

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Description
Frame gable front & wing Folk Victorian house with arched window hoods and cement block foundation. Queen Anne detailing and fish scale trim on the front porch gable. Interior repaired after house was moved from N. Ann Arbor in 1928. Beautiful masonry first-floor ceilings (owner was mason). Floors on this level apparently replaced with narrow boards. New one/two level rear addition being added. When family room (recently) added at rear, kitchen window openings were retained. Upper kitchen cupboards are intact, but lower cupboards and tile flooring replaced. Original floors and oak woodwork on 2nd level. 2nd story rear addition with bedroom and bath. 2nd floor has 3 original bedrooms and added bath. Repairs being made to front porch.
Date Of Construction
ca.1875
Context
322 N. Lewis was moved in 1928 from N. Ann Arbor by Clarence Wurster, a local mason.The lot on N. Ann Arbor was owned by D.S. Hallock in 1872, who sold it to Evi Brainard in 1876. It is speculated that the house was built ca.1875. The Brainards lived there until the early 1900's when it was sold to the Walkers. Helen Walker Wurster and her husband, Clarence spent their married life here. Probably due to the Depression, the Wursters remained in this house and did not build on the North Ann Arbor Street lot. Helen Wurster died in 1959; Clarence in 1983, on his 88th birthday. The house was left to Jane Kelly who did not occupy it, but sold it to the Herrons in March, 1984. The Herrons have done much remodeling, and found notes left by Clarence to himself on walls in the basement, as well as evidence of his masonry throughout the house.
Bibliographic Reference
Saline Observer. February 9, 1928; April 5, 1928. Interview with Karen and Kurt Herron February 2, 1994.
Form Source
MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE SK 104

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Survey Date
1994
Surveyor
K. Glynn & S. Kosky
Recorder Date
April, 1994
Card No.
104

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2024 x 1472
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Record
SL1414
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