Record Group 59
AAUW Landmark Plymouth Branch Business and Home Sites
Collection
Box 1, Shelf
46
Entry 1: Preservation
Magazines
Historic
Preservation July/August 1980
American
Preservation August-September 1978
American
Preservation April-May 1979
A Guide to Historic
Sites Survey
Heritage Projects: A Practical
Guide for Community Preservation Organizations
Entry 2: Plymouth Area Maps: 1872, 1982, and 1986
Entry 3: AAUW Business Forms
and Stationary
Home selection letter
Building Structure
Inventory Form
Questionnaire and
Inventory Form
Expense Voucher
Entry 4: Building Sketches
(not Landmark selections)
Dunn Steel Products
Christian Science
Church
Liberty Street
Daisy Manufacturing Co.
Adams
House
Entry 5: History of Plymouth Banks
Article by Roy A. Fisher
Plymouth Historical Society’s article
Charlie Bennett account from Plymouth Mail
Entry 6: Architectural Terms
and Styles
Field Guide to Old House Styles
An Italianate House
What Makes it Greek Revival
Queen Anne 1880-1900
Architectural Styles by L. Brownlee
The House Next Door from July August 1996 “Home”
Time Frame – Architectural Periods
Historic Buildings of Detroit by Marian West
Architecture in Plymouth – Past, Present & Future
A Field Guide to Old Houses
Research an Old House
Glossary of Architectural Terms
Entry 7: Old House
Appraisals
History of owners of 1113 Penniman
Oldest Homes
167 Caster Avenue
1034 York
839 North Holbrook
1142 North Holbrook
1059 North Holbrook
1056 North Holbrook
511 North Holbrook
496 North Mill
464 North Mill
801 Starkweather
1032 North Holbrook
557 North Mill 769
North Holbrook
Second Oldest
818 North Holbrook
784 North Holbrook
1071 North Holbrook
187 Spring
537 North Mill
797 North Holbrook
759-761 Starkweather
472 Starkweather
253 Blanche
353 Starkweather
383 Starkweather
405 Starkweather
435 Starkweather
1017 Holbrook
Classified Old
1000York
984 York
137 Caster
1040 Cherry
1009 Starkweather
958 Starkweather
1105 Starkweather
561 ? North Mill
1040 North Mill
1103 North Mill
556 North Mill
1087 North Mill
927 North Mill
915 North Mill
632 North Mill
696 North Holbrook
654 North Holbrook
957 North Holbrook
946 North Holbrook
992 North Holbrook
1090 North Holbrook
758-764 North
Holbrook
297 Liberty
184-186 East Liberty
215 Spring
148 Spring
Entry 8: History and
Architecture of Churches
Article on 150th
Anniversary of the First Presbyterian Church of Plymouth
Michigan Crossroads Cathedral
Historical Data of Plymouth
Township, Wayne Co. MI by Nettie L. Dibble
Entry 9: Civil War –
Recollections of Civil War Days by Nelson S. Pooler
Entry 10: Letter to Henry Fralick from John Passage - 1873
Entry 11: Newspaper Clippings
Folder 1
Book Commemorates Plymouth Church History O&E, 22 Aug 1985
Plymouth & Canton-Look at Past, Guide, 1982
AAUW Awards
Landmark Plaques Observer 26 May 1980AAUW Plymouth/Canton
The Capsule
Edition, Community Crier, 4 July 1976
Indian Crossing Now
Plymouth,
Plymouth Mail,
9 Sept 1965
Main Street Was Paved With Wood Here in
1852, O & E, 17 Oct 1963
Old
Village
Once Had Stockyards-Soap Factory,O&E, 14 Nov 1963
Detroit
Heart Beats Strong and Steady, Detroit News, 31 Dec 1950
Entry 12: 2000 Documents
Branch-Treasurer Report August 2000
AAUW Agenda for meetings 21 September 2000
Includes information on opposing vouchers for schools
Note from Bea Laible on selecting Landmark homes
Landmark Study Groups list of accomplishments before 2000
Handwritten notes on Landmark procedure and accomplishments
Bill for Heritage Day Invitations
Bill for 30 copies of printing dated 3 May 2000
Landmark Meeting Minutes 14 Aug 2000
Agenda for AAUW Landmark Meetings starting September 25, 2000
Landmarks Meeting Minutes September 25, 2000
List of AAUW Landmark homes and notes on pictures if colored or b/w
Updated list of sites with notes
Fax, Letter and confirmation to Supersine ordering
plaque
Great Lakes Appraisal of 1127 Penniman
3 pages - Notes listing projects and sources to contact and complete
Entry 13: 1999 Documents
Folder 1
Minutes of Meetings: Sept 1995 to March 1999
Folder 2
Frantic Face-Lift – Article on Fisher Mansion from Detroit Free Press 25 Apr 1999
Six Pictures of members during tour of the Fisher Mansion.
AAUW Plymouth Landmark Sites (updated)
AAUW Landmarks Group
AAUW Landmarks Membership List
Letter to John Hoffecker advising home would not be
considered (1113 Penniman)
AAUW Landmark Meeting February 10, 1999
AAUW Landmark
business meeting minutes from March 30, 1999,
AAUW Landmark business meeting minutes from 6 May 1999
AAUW Landmark business meeting minutes from 7 Sep 1999 and 28 Sep 1999
AAUW Meeting at Ann
Krunkel’s home and Picture at Ann Krunkel’s home
AAUW Minutes form 1 Oct 1999 meeting
Letter to Michael Bailey 6 Oct 1999
Notes from meeting at Plymouth
Historical
Museum
on 26 Oct 1999
AAUW Landmark Minutes with next
meeting Nov 30 at Box Bar
Map with 1900’s homes marked for consideration in 1999
Two pictures of 184 Caster/Holbrook home for consideration
Pictures of homes considered for Landmarking:
Queen Anne House on Ridge south of Cherry Hill, 4600 West Ann Arbor Trail (Heindrycks), Travis Bartlett House in
Canton, Red Brick at 3704 South Sheldon
below Palmer, Weed Road and North
Territorial on North West Corner
Great Lakes Appraisal Service Report on 184 Caster
Great Lakes Appraisal Service Report on 186 Caster
Great Lakes
Appraisal Service Report on 240 North
Harvey
Entry 14: 1998 Documents
AAUW Landmark
Minutes 22 April 1998
AAUW Landmark Minutes 22, Sep 1998
AAUW Landmark Minutes 14 Oc5 1998
AAUW Landmark Home View Tour and Meeting at Box Bar
AAUW Landmark Minutes 2 Nov 1998
AAUW Landmark Minutes 30 Nov 1998
AAUW Plymouth
Landmark Sites (updated)
Box 2, Shelf 47
Entry 15: 1997 Documents
AAUW Landmark Minutes and Agenda 16 Apr 1997
Minutes of AAUW
Landmark Meeting 17 June 1997
Planning Meeting for AAUW Landmark 17 June 19970
Letter to Landmark members from Luan and Bea 1 August 1997
AAUW Landmark Home View Tour and Meeting 13 August 1997
AAUW Landmarks Minutes August 13, 1997
AAUW Landmark Minutes 10 September 1997
AAUW Landmark Minutes 15 October 1997
AAUW Landmark Minutes 19 November 1997
AAUW Plymouth Landmark Sites (updated)
AAUW Planning Session for 1997 and 1998
Two Pictures of
member’s pizza party March 1998
Entry 16: 1996 Documents
Plymouth at the Time of Lincoln – A Timeline
Revised AAUW
Plymouth Landmarks Sites List
Civil War Battlefield Map 1861-1865
Abraham Lincoln Portrait and Thoughts
Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address 1863
AAUW and Landmarks presents Plymouth at the Time of
Lincoln brochure, drafts
and script for slide presentation –Yellow copy
includes pictures and articles
Chronology of Lincolns Life 1809 -1865
September 1995 - March1999 -- Business and minutes in presentation binder
Entry
17: 1995 Documents
Honest Admirer – Metro Detroiter Gets Abe Lincoln Collection Ready for his 186th
Birthday Detroit Free Press 6 Feb 1995
Come Home to Plymouth – Plymouth’s House of the 40’s
Article on American Houses Since 1940
Landmarks Meeting Agenda for 18 Oct 1995
AAUW Plymouth Landmark Sites updated to 1995
Thank you note to Esther from Jo
Entry 18: 1994 Documents
Folder 1
Architecture – Design – Data on Old Houses
Folder 2 Plymouth –
Kellogg
Park Historic District
Preliminary Report
Entry 19: 1993 Documents
Plymouth Historic District Study on Historic
Preservation by Chisholm & Weir
Entry 20: 1992 Documents
AAUW Plymouth Landmarks – several copies of Landmark listed homes from 1972 to
1992
Landmark Meeting Notes 1991-1992
1992 Annual Report
Letter to Jim Rawlingson dated March 23, 1992
Landmark info to Members dated 27 Apr 1992
Landmark Luncheon Invitation 26 Jun 1992
Expense Voucher for 1991-1992
Landmark Membership 1991-1992
Notice to members of next meeting on 5 Nov 1992
Entry
21: 1991 Documents
Plymouth
Historical Society Presentation - Harvest Picnic & Historic Tour Including
Plymouth Mill Tour by Gary Stone – Article “Steam shovel bares Indian Burial
Places Plymouth Mail Dec `936 – 1876
Map of Plymouth
“Group Studies Historic Site” Observer
2 3 ½
X 5 picture at Fisher
Mansion
1 4 X 6 picture at Fisher Mansion
6 Polaroid pictures of houses being considered for Landmarking
Entry
22: 1989 Documents
Letter to AAUW Board from Pat Dunbeck regarding
activities
Entry
23: 1987 Documents
Letter and History of Hough
School
Entry
24: 1985 Documents
Pamphlet – “Together We Can” AAUW Plymouth Branch 19845-1985
Entry
25: 1984 Documents
List of Colored Pictures of Landmarked Properties
Handout - The National House Inn at
Marshall
MI
Handout - Marshall A Great Place
Handout – Marshall Historic Home
Tour
Handout – A Walking Tour of Historic
Marshall
Hillside Farmhouse – Ella Sharp Museum –
Jackson
MI
How to tell style of Homes
Hand out - Cultivating Success – Domino’s Pizza and its Quarter Century of
progress 1960-1985
Livonia Sesquicentennial 1835-1985 featuring Greenmead
Entry
26: 1983 Documents
AAUW Plymouth Branch 1882-1983 “Its Your Move”
Entry
27: 1982 Documents
Folder 1
The Landmarks Committee of the AAUW Plymouth Branch “History of the First 10
Years” 2 copies
Misc Information:
AAUW Marks a Milestone Observer 24 May 1982
Ten year list of Landmark selections and map of Plymouth
Folder 2
Books and Pamphlets: Celebrating
AAUW, Plymouth Branch 1981-1982
The AAUW presents
An Architectural Tour of Plymouth Brochure (2 copies)
(Acc. #2008.56.01)
AAUW Plymouth Branch 1952-1982 History Pamphlet
Memoirs of the Civil War by Nelson Pooler Pamphlet
The Civil War As It Was Fought by Soldiers of
Plymouth
Mich
Pamphlet
Folder 3 Stevers Home Information–Study initiated by Jeannine Hayden
and Carol Packard in 1982
Stevers Use Rustic Theme To Remodel Farmhouse
Craftsman’s Touch In Canton Home Adds To Historic Interior Crier 14 Jan 1981
Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Stevers
Three pictures of Stever’s home at 1638 Haggerty
Folder 4 Old
Baptist
Cemetery
The
Plymouth Village Cemetery
Old Plymouth
Cemetery by Ada
Murray
18 August 1831
Article on Old Cemetery at end of Pearl Street
Old Baptist Cemetery (transcriptions) in Plymouth Township,
Wayne County, MI
Hand copied notes from Dibble’s History
Two pictures of Merritt’s Tombstones
Picture of group working on identifying tombstone.
Negatives of pictures
Entry 28: 1981 Documents
AAUW Network for the “80’s” Plymouth Branch 1980-81
Copy of the Landmarks Questionnaire and Inventory
Letter from Greenfield
Village
and Henry Ford Museum
on research books
Heritage of Plymouth Area 1800-1976 – 120
Sketches of Plymouth by Local Artists
Sponsored by 3-Cities
Art Club
Plymouth Landmark Sites
1979-1981
Entry 29: 1980 Documents
Christmas Past AAUW 1980 Pamphlet
Letter of Invitation from AAUW for Christmas meeting at Museum
It’s Christmas at Museum Observer Dec
1980
Entry
30: 1979 Documents
Grow Through AAUW 1979 Pamphlet
Entry 31: 1978 Documents
Rebuilding a Store-Front Business Property and Making it “Home”
Entry 32: 1977 Documents `
Preservation Week for Wayne & Washtenaw County
A Brief History of Michigan
Pamphlet
The Pierce Arrow Chronicle - Spring 1977
Preservation Week
’77 – Table of Contents
Observing National Historic Preservation Week May 8-14 1977
Ann Arbor Art Association
- Information Sheet
Button
Ann Arbor Historic District
Commission Information Sheet
Ann Arbor Historic District
Commission Letter
Kempf House Pamphlet
Ann Arbor Observer Article
on Churches
Ann Arbor Street
Railway & Museum Pamphlet
Ann Arbor Tomorrow
Information Sheet
A One-Room Schoolhouse Could be
Canton
Museum Canton Observer 4 April 1977
Cobblestone Farm Association Information Sheet
Cobblestone Farm Fund Raising Letter
Depot
Town
Information Sheet
Schedule for Preservation Week
Article by Beverly Shankwiler
Dexter Area Historical Society – Newsletters March 1977 and May 1977
Historical Society of Michigan
Newsletter March –April 1977
Historical Society of Michigan
– Chronicle - Spring 1977
Historical Society of Michigan
Pamphlet
Ecology Center
of Ann Arbor
Information Sheet
Macon Historical Society
Information Sheet
Milan Area Historical
Society Information Sheet
Northville Historical Society Information Sheet
Mill Race Quarterly
8x10 picture of Old Library being moved
Historic Preservation Ann Arbor News 25 April
1977
Old
West Side Association Information Sheet
Plymouth Branch AAUW –
Landmarks Committee Information Sheet
Salem Area Historical
Society Information Sheet
Drawing of West Salem Walker Church
Saline Area Historical Society Information Sheet
Saline Historic District Commission
Tecumseh News Release
Tecumseh Area Historical Society 1974 Pamphlet
Washtenaw County Historical Society Information
Sheet
Washtenaw Neighborhood Association
Waterloo Area Farm Museum Pamphlet
Farm
Museum
Letter Jan 1977
Westside Neighborhood Group Information Sheet
Hertler Information Sheet
Walking Tour of Old West Side
Ypsilanti Heritage
Foundation Information Sheet
Ypsilanti Historical
Society Information Sheet
Letter – City of Ann Arbor Michigan
Entry 33: 1976 Documents
(4)
Plymouth
Landmarks – As Designated by the
American Association of University Woman
Box 3, Shelf 46
Entry 34
Landmark
Yearly
Building
Folders
2001
Ella Roe Nichols House 932
Penniman Street
10 pictures and negatives of inside and outside of 932 Penniman Street AAUW’s history on the 932 Penniman Street home
Newspaper article featuring Ella Roe Nichols
Newspaper article on Plymouth Bed and Breakfast Inn’s
Newspaper article Observer & Eccentric
25 Jun 1996 on Bed and Breakfast
Invitation to UAAW Landmarking Presentation to 932 Penniman Street
Charles J. Kehoe’s letter regarding
932 Penniman Street
Land Patent in 1825 that probably covers the 932 Penniman Street property
2000
Hoyt-Bailey House
107 South Main Street
AAUW’s historical information on home at 107 South Main
Newspaper article Observer & Eccentric
28 May 2000 AAUW
Recognizes
Local
Building
Letter from Mary Bailey to Bea Laible
Invitation to UAAW Landmarking Presentation at 107 South Main Street
20 pictures and
negatives of inside and outside of
107 South Main Street
1999
Merrett Smith House
1127 Penniman Street
Colored picture of 1127 Penniman
12 colored snap shots of 1127 Penniman
Invitation to Landmarking of 1127 Penniman
Black and white
picture of 1127 Penniman with notes
Ownership records
of 1127 Penniman-draft and typed
Great Lakes Appraisal on 1127 Penniman
Fax, Letter and
confirmation to Supersine ordering plaque
4 pages of notes,
projects, contacts and information on 1127 Penniman
Letter to William
Gray stating 1127 Penniman had been selected for study
Review of property’s history by Bill and Coni Gray
AAUW declares Penniman House Historic Site,
Observer, no date
Landmark
Merrett-Smith House Great For Family Living, Observer, 8 July 1999
1998
Norgrove House
1034 York Street
History Lives in Plymouth
House, Observer, 2 Jul 1998
11 4 X 6 pictures of house and presentation
Thank you from Mrs. Herbert Norgrove
Invitation to Landmarking on 20 May 1998
Dedication Text including Then
Plymouth Village Cemetery, Home History,
Home Exterior, Home Interior, Benajah Holbrook
Jr., history of occupant by Julie Brown.
Draft of above presentation.
A history of the times, ownership of the property, and details of the multiple
owners
Bibliography of material used for presentation
Newspaper article Interesting Old Houses –
Here is Old Plymouth – no date
1997
The Bennett House
134 North Main
13 4 X 6 pictures
of the house and the presentation – including some negatives
Colored 4 X 5 picture of house
Bennett Time Line including genealogical information
Letter to Timothy Reilly from Luan Brownlee
Packet of stapled info titled Double Home Landmarked by AAUW
Including “As I Remember Plymouth”,
The Tragedy of the 1850’s, by Sam ` Hudson, Village Of Plymouth Sate of Michigan
–special Assessment Roll for Main and Ann Arbor Street Sewer, 50 years ago
(dated 8 Sep 1955), including article with comments on Bennett, picture of 188 North Main, comments on
the first fanning mill,
1907 Bennett Tax Records
Building Field Sheet, Commercial/Industrial Assessment Record and Record Card
Draft of “Double House on 188 Main”
Another packet of stapled material
similar to above, including in additions
Every Farm Ought to Have A Fanning Mill, Transmittal to
Supersine
Company including layout of plaque and letter to Supersine.
Historic Moment, Community Crier, 28 May 1997
1996
No Homes Landmarked
– Plymouth at the time of Lincoln
1995
The Draper House 1046 Church Street
15
4 X 6 colored pictures of home and presentation
Handout for the Draper House Landmark Presentation
The Landmark Award Presentation
“The Draper House” by Luan Brownlee
History of ownership of the home and notes from conversation with Winnie Draper
Description of specific characteristics of this house
Photocopy of 1902 picture of the Draper’s House.
Great Lakes Appraisal Service
Landmarks Questionnaire and Inventory
Focus-Home’s History Highlighted by Researchers , The Observer, 22,
Jun 1995
2 black and white 8 ½ X 11 picture of the Draper House
1994
Penniman – Allen House &nbs