Merrylees-Post House

Last updated
Merrylees-Post House
Merrylees-Post House Mason.jpg
Location519 W. Ash St., Mason, Michigan
Coordinates 42°34′44″N84°27′04″W / 42.57889°N 84.45111°W / 42.57889; -84.45111 (Merrylees-Post House) Coordinates: 42°34′44″N84°27′04″W / 42.57889°N 84.45111°W / 42.57889; -84.45111 (Merrylees-Post House)
Arealess than one acre
Built1902 (1902)
Architectural style Queen Anne
MPS Mason Michigan Historic MRA
NRHP reference No. 85001238 [1]
Added to NRHPJune 6, 1985

The Merrylees-Post House is a single-family home located at 519 West Ash Street in Mason, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]

Contents

History

In 1901, Charles and Fannie Merrylees purchased the property this house stands on. Very little is known about the Merrylees. In 1902, they had this house constructed. In 1906, they sold the house to Sarah N. Post. Sarah and her husband William were in their sixties, and had been farmers in the area; they were likely using the house as a retirement home. They passed the house to their descendants; the family lived in the house until at least the 1980s. [2]

Description

The Merrylees-Post House is a two-story, hip-and-gable-roof house. It is one of the most notable Queen Anne style houses in Mason, with decorative features including scalloped-edge bargeboards, applied latticework in the main and porch gables; paneled friezes, and bracketry under the eaves of the porch. It has a front porch wrapping part of the way around two sides of the house. [2]

Related Research Articles

John Vaughan House United States historic place

John Vaughan House is a historic house near Shandon, Ohio.

Joseph Taylor Robinson House United States historic place

The Joseph Taylor Robinson House is a historic house at 2122 Broadway in Little Rock, Arkansas. Built in 1904 for a wealthy lumber merchant, it was the home of Arkansas governor and United States Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson between 1930 and 1937, the period of his greatest influence. Robinson (1872-1937) served as Senate Majority Leader from 1933–37, and was instrumental in the passage of New Deal legislation during the Hundred Days Congress which followed the inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the United States. Roosevelt was a guest of Robinson's at this house in 1936. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994.

Fuller Houses United States historic place

The Fuller Houses are two historic homes at 339-341 and 343-345 Broadway in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Constructed in 1896-1897, the two Queen Anne-styled homes were constructed as rental properties for the Fuller family and are believed to have originally been identical in construction. The ​2 12-story houses are marked by an octagonal bay which contains the front staircase and a large two-story porch projecting almost completely from the house itself. For the National Register of Historic Places nomination only a single unit was examined, but the identical unit below is believed to have undergone minimal alterations. The other house, 343-345 Broadway, was not surveyed, but has been more seriously modified to allow for four apartment units. The Fuller Houses are architecturally significant as well-preserved and well-detailed Queen Anne-styled apartment flats. The Fuller Houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

House at 129 High Street United States historic place

129 High Street in Reading, Massachusetts is a well-preserved, modestly scaled Queen Anne Victorian house. Built sometime in the 1890s, it typifies local Victorian architecture of the period, in a neighborhood that was once built out with many similar homes. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

Charles Shorey House United States historic place

The Charles Shorey House is a two-story wood home on Main Street in downtown Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Completed about 1908, the Queen Anne style structure was built by Charles Shorey. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

John and Emma Lacey Eberts House United States historic place

The John and Emma Lacey Eberts House is a private house located at 109 Vinewood Avenue in Wyandotte, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Brinkerhoff–Becker House United States historic place

The Brinkerhoff–Becker House, also known as the Becker–Stachlewitz House, was built as a private home, and is located at 601 West Forest Avenue Ypsilanti, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Knight–Mangum House United States historic place

The Knight–Mangum House is a historic house located in Provo, Utah, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The mansion was built in the old English Tudor style, completed in 1908. It was built for Mr. W. Lester Mangum and his wife Jennie Knight Mangum. Mrs. Mangum was the daughter of the famous Utah mining man, Jesse Knight. The lot was purchased for $3,500 and the home was built at a cost of about $40,000. The Mangum family was able to afford the home due to the fact that they had sold their shares in Jesse Knight's mine located in Tintic, Utah, for eight dollars a share. They had purchased the shares for only twenty cents a share, so the excess allowed them enough funds to purchase the home. The contractors for the home were the Alexandis Brothers of Provo.

Mason–Drennen House United States historic place

Mason–Drennen House, also known as the Martin Bibb Mason House, Drennen-Mason House, and Drennen Spring, is a historic home located near Drennen, Nicholas County, West Virginia. The main portion of the house was built about 1818 and 1835, and the rear wing was added about 1910. It is a two-story, side gable with a rear gable, two-story wing of log and frame construction. It features a full-length, two-story porch on the front of the house. Also on the property are two contributing barns.

Arnold Stevens House United States historic place

The Arnold Stevens House is a historic house located in Jerome, Idaho. It is part of the Lava Rock Structures in South Central Idaho Thematic Resource and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983.

Daniel Pennie House United States historic place

The Daniel Pennie House is a historic house located in Leven Township, approximately 2 miles (3 km) north of Villard in Pope County, Minnesota, United States. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on April 1, 1982. It was nominated to the register for having local significance in settlement and construction technology. The Daniel Pennie House was built by one of Pope County's most prominent early settlers using locally distinctive construction.

Mason–Hardee–Capel House United States historic place

Mason–Hardee–Capel House is a historic home located near Garysburg, Northampton County, North Carolina. It was built about 1775, as a one-story-with-attic, hall-parlor plan, Georgian style frame dwelling. It has a gable roof and features massive gable-end brick chimneys. About 1840, a formerly detached 1 1/2-story kitchen was attached to the west gable end.

West-Harris House United States historic place

West-Harris House, also known as Ambassador House, is a historic home located at 106th Street and Eller Road in Fishers, Hamilton County, Indiana. The ell-shaped, two-story, Colonial Revival-style dwelling with a large attic and a central chimney also features a full-width, hip-roofed front porch and large Palladian windows on the gable ends of the home. It also includes portions of the original log cabin dating from ca. 1826, which was later enlarged and remodeled. In 1996 the home was moved to protect it from demolition about 3 miles (4.8 km) from its original site to its present-day location at Heritage Park at White River in Fishers. The former residence was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 and is operated as a local history museum, community events center, and private rental facility.

Jesse Andrew House United States historic place

The Jesse Andrew House is a historic building in West Lafayette, Indiana protected by the National Register of Historic Places because of its historic value in the time of the founding of the city. Its humble beginnings started as it was home of Jesse Andrew, a vibrant member of the early West Lafayette community. Mr. Andrews is considered to be one of the cities founders as he took a major part in the establishment of the government. The house was originally built in 1859 making it the oldest home and one of the oldest structures in the city. It went through major renovations in the 1930s, turning it into a duplex, before being sold out of the Andrew's family to a local rental company in the 1980s.

North Ann Arbor Street Historic District United States historic place

The North Ann Arbor Street Historic District is a residential historic district, consisting of the houses at 301, 303, and 305-327 North Ann Arbor Street in Saline, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Henry R. Watson House United States historic place

The Henry R. Watson House is a single-family home located at 7215 North Ann Arbor-Saline Road in Saline, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Mason Street Historic Residential District United States historic place

The Mason Street Historic Residential District is a primarily residential historic district located along Mason Street between Dewey and Hickory Streets in Owosso, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Hezekiah W. and Sarah E. Fishell Cobb House United States historic place

The Hezekiah W. and Sarah E. Fishell Cobb House, also known as just the Cobb House, is a single-family home located at 115 West 2nd Street in Perry, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

Peter B. Appeldorn House United States historic place

The Peter B. Appeldorn House is a single-family home located at 532 Village Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Patrick and Sarah Dobbins Shields House United States historic place

The Patrick and Sarah Dobbins Shields House is a single-family home located at 6681 North 2nd Street in Alamo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. The house is a relatively rare example of a rural Queen Anne made with patterned masonry, and is one of the few remnants of the former hamlet of Williams.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. 1 2 National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form: Merrylees-Post House