303 E. Michigan Ave. / Max Fosdick

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About this home

National Register Listed: 10/10/85
Historic Name: Max Fosdick
USGS Map: Saline Quadrangle
District Name: E. Michigan Avenue
Street and No.: 303 E. Michigan Ave.
Municipal Unit: Saline
County: Washtenaw
Original Usage: Residence
Present Usage: Residence
Ownership: Steven Braun

About this photograph

Photo Negative No.: 19:36
Photo Date: Jan-94
Photo View: South and west facades. Facing northeast.

About the construction

Description: This end gable Craftsman bungalow has a sloping overhang roof with exposed rafters. Center dormers on front and back also have exposed or added rafters. Fenestration includes bands of windows with twelve over one lights and cameo windows in dormer and gable peaks. The full front porch has sloping piers on a raised wooden base.
Date Of Construction: 1918
Context: The Fosdick house, part of the E. Michigan Avenue Historic District, is one of Saline's kit houses. Plans for the house were found in Mr. Fosdick's 1915 copy of Radford 's Artistic Homes (Radford,1915,148), although the structure pictured in the catalogue was not exactly this house. It is possible that the pictured plan was combined with another plan, or perhaps was from another edition. Mr. Fosdick grew up on the family farm in York Township, later to follow his brother, Earl, to the village of Saline. He became the village's first lamplighter, then joined Detroit Edison in 1909 where he retired in 1935 as director of the Saline office. The house was completed in time for the Fosdick's wedding, July 17,1918. The house remained in the family until the present owners bought it.
Bibliographic Reference: Thirty-five Years With the Edison Co. Saline Observer, May, 1944. "Saline Kit Houses", EMU graduate paper by Gladys Saborio, 1993.
Form Source: MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE SK 47

About this record

Survey Date: 1994
Surveyor: K. Glynn & S. Kosky
Recorder Date: April, 1994
Card No.: 47

Technical Details

Collection: Saline Historic Homes
Image Size: 2016 x 1472
File Size: 395 KB
Record: SL1332
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sdlhomes/x-sl1332/sl133201.tif

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