300 N. Ann Arbor St.

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About this home

USGS Map: Saline Quadrangle
Street and No.: 300 N. Ann Arbor St.
Municipal Unit: Saline
County: Washtenaw
Original Usage: Residence
Present Usage: Residence
Ownership: Brando, R. J.

About this photograph

Photo Negative No.: 21:12
Photo Date: January, 1994
Photo View: North and west facades taken facing southeast

About the construction

Description: Two story, side-gabled, Colonial Revival style house. Shed roof dormers across front (west) and rear facades. Four windows in dormers. Green wood shingles on second story, and clapboard siding on first. Windows are three vertical lights over one. First story windows have shutters. Off center entry with portico roof and round column supports. Enclosed entry porch on north rear facade. Brick chimney on south facade. One and a half car, hipped roof, garage with vertical wood siding at rear.
Date Of Construction: 1922-28
Context: This house combines some elements of Craftsman style, and some of the Colonial Revival. Possibly a pattern book or kit house. Not on the 1921 Sanborn map; there on the 1929 Sanborn. Tescher is listed at 216 N. Ann Arbor St. in the 1926 city directory. The address numbers on N. Ann Arbor changed sometime in that period. He probably built the house. He is listed as a cashier at Citizens' Bank. Lee Tescher lived in the house through 1947, when R.J. Brando bought it. Mr. Brando still lives in the house.
Bibliographic Reference: City Directories: 1878, 1894, 1899, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1926, 1941, 1945. Assessor's files: 1947 and current; U.S. Census: 1910, 1920. Sanborn Maps: 1888, 1893, 1899, 1912, 1921, 1929; Tax Rolls: 1931 and 1935.
Form Source: MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE KG 67

About this record

Survey Date: May, 1994
Surveyor: K. Glynn & S. Kosky
Recorder Date: April, 1994
Card No.: 67

Technical Details

Collection: Saline Historic Homes
Image Size: 2176 x 1480
File Size: 429 KB
Record: SL0116
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sdlhomes/x-sl0116/sl011601.tif

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