Old Houses

Northern Mich~Mash Preserve

~ OLD HOUSES ~

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~ OLD Kolinski House ~

1980

Photo Below: The two out buildings below were located beside the old Kolinski House.

1 January 2008

12 July 2012

8 January 2014

8 May 2015

19 May 2015 ~ Photographed by Brit Temby

19 June 2017

Photo Below: Posted on this Northern Mich~Mash Preserve web site only by permission from
remarkable photographer and videographer Charles Dawley of Up North Imaging.

Aerial perspective of the OLD Kolinski House shows
Round Lake (left) and Crooked Lake (right) in the background...

31 July 2017 ~ ~ Charles Dawley (permission to post only on this Northern Mich~Mash Preserve web site).

Petoskey experienced horrific wind/rain storms in a 24 hour timeframe on 18-19 July 2020 traveling through Petoskey and its countryside, the following photo shows that the old Kolinski House was still standing just as well as before. It has weathered many storms. Sadly, just a little farther down Kolinski Hill, the storm caused the Burek's Barn to collaspe... see by Clicking HERE.

19 July 2020

4 September 2020

Photo Below: While the Newer OLD Kolinski House (Farther Below) burned,
this OLD Kolinski House still stood...

15 October 2020 (about 6:30PM)

7 January 2021 ~ Starting a new year... will the sagging side addition stand until the end of the year???

~ Newer OLD Kolinski House ~

8 January 2014 ~ Newer OLD Kolinski House

12 July 2017

Three Photos Below: The presence of the Resort Bear Creek Fire Chief's car is a precursor that a controlled burn, with consent of the owner, is coming up soon on this OLD Kolinski Road House. Document clears the house of contaminants, so a date will be scheduled soon, safe with regard to wind.

4 September 2020

Notification had been sent to neighboring residents with
a "Planned Burn Date" of 15 October 2020.
By 11 October 2020 as in the photo below,
a preparatory air vent hole had been punched through the roof.

11 October 2020 (about 6:30PM)

Four Photos Below:
By about 6:30PM on 15 October 2020, the Newer OLD Kolinski house was being burned to a
"Place of the Past"!

Chimney was still standng... 15 October 2020 (about 6:30PM)

Chimney was down... 15 October 2020 (about 6:30PM)

15 October 2020 (about 6:30PM)

The out building had been burning too...

15 October 2020 (about 6:30PM)

Two photos Below:
AFTER the controlled burn, even the old spooky tree was down, along with the TV antenna

19 October 2020

Photo Below: This old barn once stood beside the Kolinski Farmhouse above...

1993 ~ Petoskey News Review

~ 1809–EXTREME HOUSES–1865 ~
[From one EXTREME to another EXTREME]

12 February 1927 ~ Petoskey Evening News

~ 1873 Summer... Mr. G.L. Smith "Pa Smith"
Built Board Shanty called the Union House
(First House Built by a White Man in Village)

18 April 1884 ~ Emmet County Democrat

~ 1875 Splendid Residence Lots Laid Out ~

11 June 1875 ~ Emmet County Democrat

~ 1893 House Numbering in Petoskey ~

18 January 1951 ~ Northern Michigan Review

~ 1907 Petoskey Hollow Wall Machine Company is New Factory ~

10 April 1907 ~ The Petoskey Record

~ 1927 Northern Michigan Bark Teepee ~

Contact the webmaster with any information about the site/location of the photo below.

Submitted by Geoff Guillaume from the collection of his grandfather Harold Guillaume.

Labeled: "An Early Indian Home on West Lake Street Petoskey~ Photo by Jon Foley ~ LIttle Traverse Historical Society Photo Collection

~ Elm Bark Hut... Museum of Treasured Indian Relics ~
1951

9 August 1951 ~ Northern Michigan Review Article Below...

Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey Newspaper (1951)

9 August 1951 ~ Northern Michigan Review #1

9 August 1951 ~ Northern Michigan Review #2

9 August 1951 ~ Northern Michigan Review #3

9 August 1951 ~ Northern Michigan Review #4

9 August 1951 ~ Northern Michigan Review

Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey Newspaper (1951)

~ Howard Street > Grand Avenue (601 Winter Park Lane) ~
1951

6 June 1951 ~ Petoskey Evening News

~ 601 Winter Park Lane ~
(Facing Arlington Avenue)

16 April 2020 ~ 601 Winter Park Lane

~ Top of Washout Road, then East on Sheridan Street ~

26 May 1956 ~ Petoskey News Review

~ Cabin Moving ~
1964

4 November 1964 ~ Petoskey News Review

Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey newspapers

~ One of Petoskey's Oldest Homes ~
Corner of Hill and Kalamazoo Street, Petoskey Michigan
(Same house still exists in same location in 2017)

26 April 1967 ~ Petoskey News Review

While the Hill Street home above is the oldest existing home in Petoskey, Michigan, in 2018, the FIRST house actually built on the site of Petoskey was the board shanty erected on the bluff by G.L. Smith, familiarly called 'Pa' Smith, in the early summer of 1873. By 1 January 1874, a frame shack had been erected by Doctor William Little which he called the Rose House. This was the FIRST hotel of Petoskey's numerous progeny and from it developed the Occidental which can be viewed on this web site's Hotel page. The building of this house by John G. Hill was announced in the 31 August 1877 Petoskey newspaper... Hill was building on his six acre lot on one of our most beautiful streets. On 17 May 1878 the newspaper announced that the Hill Family had moved into their new home. Mr. Hill was born in Rochester, New York 4 November 1836. In 1848 he moved to Kalamazoo County, Michigan. He was admitted to the bar in 1861. It was the autumn of 1875 when he came to Petoskey.

27 March 1939 ~ Petoskey Evening News

Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey newspapers (June 1986)

26 June 1970 ~ Petoskey News Review

Photo Below: Labeled as "Indian Home - Petoskey" so it is not clear if that means the house belonged to the Petoskey Family OR if that means that the house was located in Petoskey. Other references to this photo have mentioned that the house was located on the shore of Little Traverse Bay.

Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey Newspapers (Undated)

Photo Below: The Porter House, the Cybulski Family Home, later the Rice residence,
the Craig Rose Home, and now [2018] the Blint Family Home...
located beside the Episcopalian Church on 1010 East Mitchell Street.

     A "Northern Mich~Mash Preserve" viewer shared her memories of this Porter House, but from later years. "It sat between Scattergoods home (on the corner of Kalamazoo and Mitchell) and what is now the Episcopal Church. The house looks slightly different now [2018] as trees have grown up and renovations have transpired. Back in the mid-fifties it was owned by Joseph Wysocki and his wife Sabina who owned Travelers Motel (stated on Joseph Wysocki's obituary). Their daughter Clara married to Konstanty "Connie" Cybulski. Connie and Clara Cybulski owned and operated Petoskey Motor Court on the corner of US31 and US131 until 1960 when he died. Cybulski's son Andy graduated from Petoskey High School in 1957. Another daughter of Joseph and Sabina Wysocki was Maria who married Fred L. Rice (b. 1912 - d. 2002)... explaining how the Rice Family members were the next residents.
     In 1958 (before and after) Milton and Katherine "Kathy" Kositchek of the City News Stand on East Mitchell Street, had an apartment in the house, and so did the Arcadia's Chef James Michael and his wife Esther Michael. James and Esther Michael, along with Frank Behan purchased the Arcadia Restaurant business (George and Stella Batsakis owned the property) in 1956. In 1962 the Michaels became sole owners and operated the restaurant for several years before retirement. [The Kositcheks owned the City News Stand from 1952 until they sold it to Arthur Hilton in July, 1969.]
     One of Sabina Wysocki's daughters was Maria who married Fred L. Rice (1912 d. 2002)... explaining how the Rice Family members were the next residents.
    I spent a lot of time at that home from an early age (12-13?). I helped Kathy with her apartment, and mowed the grass for the Wysocki's."
     Another couple who lived at the 1010 East Mitchell Street residence was Louis E. and Lucile (Canouts) Thompson.They lived in a small apartment in the rear of the home. Mr. Thompson was a lathing contractor. They came to Petoskey in 1951 after having moved from Detroit to Wildwood in Resort Township in 1936.

Allan McCune a successful Petoskey businessman and local historian donated several of his albums to Petoskey's Little Traverse Historical Museum. One of his albums included this photo of Petoskey,labeled as the Porter Residence with the Porter twins Dick and George in the front yard.

Before Petoskey could have the US 31 Bypass constructed, several houses had to be razed. That is what the article below is in reference. Allan McCune a successful Petoskey businessman and local historian donated several of his photo albums to Petoskey's Little Traverse Historical Museum. One of his albums included the copied 1957-58-59 photos in the slideshow on the Bypasses and Roads web page on this same web site about half way down the web page. Mr. McCune was foresighted enough to take "pictures of dwellings and commercial buildings (labeled) before being torn down by the State Highway Department in 1958 to make room for the New Bypass."

612 Elizabeth Street, Petoskey, Michigan

Photo Below Left: Henkel Family and Neighbor Children.

Little Traverse Historlcal Society Photo Collection (About 1905)

Google Maps (2020)

615 Bay Street, Petoskey, Michigan

Little Traverse Historical Society Photo Collection from the album of Allan McCune

Article Below: House below where Baron Walter Downing Kephart was born 18 March 1896.
One-time home of Ralph and Vernie Dean...
(615 Bay Street, Petoskey, Michigan)

6 March 1989 ~ Petoskey News Review article continued below...

21 April 2020

6 March 1989 ~ Petoskey News Review article continued from above...

Photo Below: Farther up Bay Street hill is this 619 Bay Street which was listed for sale by the Ellis Agency in 1956.

8 May 1956 ~ Petoskey News Review

~ Unidentified OLD Houses ~

The Unidentified OLD Houses below are thought to be in the Northern Michigan area.
Contact the webmaster with any possible identification or information
by referencing the number below the photo of the Unidentified OLD House.

#1 ~ Submitted by Geoff Guillaume from the collection of his grandfather Harold Guillaume

#1 appears to be located in Petoskey on the corner of Michigan Street and Woodland Avenue looking toward downtown. The church on the right is the OLD Methodist Church, and the cross on the left is the OLD Episcopal Church when it was located on the corner of Waukazoo and Mitchell streets. Who has lived here or knows anything about this property?

#2 ~ Submitted by Geoff Guillaume from the collection of his grandfather Harold Guillaume

#3 ~ Submitted by Geoff Guillaume from the collection of his grandfather Harold Guillaume

#4 ~ Submitted by Geoff Guillaume from the collection of his grandfather Harold Guillaume

#5 ~ Submitted by Paul VanWagoner from the Collection of the Treloar Family

#6 ~ Submitted by Paul VanWagoner from the Collection of the Treloar Family

~ House Below... NOW IDENTIFIED ~

#7 ~ Submitted by Paul VanWagoner from the Collection of the Treloar Family

#8 ~ Submitted by Paul VanWagoner from the Collection of the Treloar Family

#9 ~ Submitted by Paul VanWagoner from the Collection of the Treloar Family

The article below was the clue for identity of the three photos above because many of the associated photos in the Treloar Family Collection also had photos of the Wingate Family. When this article was recently read in the OLD Petoskey papers, giving the address of the Wingate Family, it proved to be the connecting clue of the location of the houses in the photos above.

Houses photos #7,8,and 9 may possibly be of 716 Lockwood Avenue... as this address is right next door to where the Treloar Family had lived. The photos were originally a part of the Treloar Collection.

Compare the photos below to the #7, 8, 9 above. The house profile remains the same... appearing almost to have once been two separate houses. In #7 above, it had appeared to be two separate houses... today it is obviously one house with the appearance of having once been two houses.. YES, the Wingate house is definitely the same house as 716 Lockwood Avenue, Petoskey, Michigan.

716 Lockwood Avenue, Petoskey, Michigan ~ 4 June 2019

Did houses in #10 sit on the corner of Howard and Pearl streets in Petoskey, Michigan?
Contact webmaster.

#10 ~ Are these homes on Howard Street?

WHERE did these following houses end up being located?
Contact webmaster.

Photos #11, #12, #13 and #14 were labled (September 1948) Top O' Michigan REA in Emmet County

#11 Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey Newspaper (September 1948) labled Top O' Michigan REA in Emmet County

#12 Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey Newspaper (September 1948) labled Top O' Michigan REA in Emmet County

#13 Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey Newspaper (September 1948) labled Top O' Michigan REA in Emmet County

#14 Greenwood Photo Archive Collection from Petoskey Newspaper (September 1948) labled Top O' Michigan REA in Emmet County

#15 23 May 1946 Corner of Grove and Waukazoo, Petoskey, Michigan

#16 26 May 1056 ~ Petoskey News Review

CLICK: Michigan - Emmet County Historic Sites
AND
CLICK: National Register of Historic Places

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