Richard and Deborah (Brough) Glaister House

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Richard and Deborah (Brough) Glaister House
Richard and Deborah (Brought) Glaister House.jpg
Location402 S. Walnut St., Lansing, Michigan
Coordinates 42°43′47″N84°33′26″W / 42.72972°N 84.55722°W / 42.72972; -84.55722 (Richard and Deborah (Brough) Glaister House)
Built1876 (1876)
ArchitectRichard Appleyard
Architectural style Queen Anne, Italianate
DemolishedJuly 2025
NRHP reference No. 100000763 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 21, 2017

The Richard and Deborah (Brough) Glaister House was a single-family home located at 402 South Walnut Street in Lansing, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. [1]

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History

Richard Glaister was born in 1826 in England, and married Deborah Brough in 1847. In 1864 the Glaister family moved to Ottawa, Canada, and in 1868 moved to Detroit. Glaister worked as a stonemason, and did the stone work on Pittsburgh's Trinity Cathedral. Returning from Pittsburgh, he was hired to do the stonework for the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing. [2]

Richard and Deborah Glaister built this house in 1876, likely from a design by architect Richard Appleyard. They raised their family here, [3] and lived in the house until Richard's death in 1887. Deborah Glaister continued to live in the house after her husband's death. [2]

The house served as a boardinghouse for some time. [4] Alice Sessions purchased the home in 1966, and worked to preserve it. [3] In 2017, it was sold to a nearby business. [5] In 2023, the City Rescue Mission of Lansing purchased it from the business in a non-cash transaction, and in July 2025 they demolished the nearly 150 year old building. [6] [7]

Description

The Richard and Deborah Glaister House was a two-story, red brick house. [5] It had both Queen Anne and Italianate details, including tall windows, carved stone window lintels, and highly detailed wood brackets under the eaves. [3] It contained 14 rooms. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register of Historic Places Program: Weekly List: March 31, 2017" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  2. 1 2 Chapman Brothers (1891), Portrait and Biographical Album of Ingham and Livingston Counties, Michigan, Chapman Bros., p. 499
  3. 1 2 3 Daniel E. Bollman (November 1, 2017). "Eye candy of the Week". Lansing City Pulse.
  4. 1 2 Lawrence Cosentino (January 20, 2022). "History and preservation groups release list of 10 "at risk" buildings in Lansing". Lansing City Pulse.
  5. 1 2 Lawrence Cosentino (July 19, 2018). "A tale of two houses". Lansing City Pulse.
  6. ↑ Lawrence Cosentino and Berl Schwartz (March 12, 2025). "New threat to Glaister House: Lansing City Rescue Mission". Lansing City Pulse.
  7. ↑ Laux Construction (July 15, 2025). "End of an Era for the Historic Glaister House". LinkedIn. Retrieved August 1, 2025.
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