609 Lafayette Ave NE
349 N Lafayette
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S 15 FT OF LOT 18 & PART OF LOT 19 COM AT NE COR SD LOT TH W 129 1/2 FT S 15 FT E 41 1/2 FT S 10 FT E 88 FT N 25 FT TO BEG* CORBIT S & CO ADDITION
The house was built about 1890. It had a partial Michigan basement and a hot-air coal-converted-to-gas furnace. It had hardwood floors and trim down and pine up. There were five rooms on the first floor and four above. .
Permit History
Sep 27, 1949 M. Shippy Conversion to gas burner
Nov 15, 1956 M. Shippy Gas furnace
Aug 17, 1959 M. Shippy replace present porch
Sep 30, 1963 Melvin Shippy rebuild roof over rear portion of house
The Residents:
1900 Census Page 58 - Two family Walter Haynes and Charles Haynes
1912 - Mrs. A Backus and A. Clan Fox
1930 - Arie Van Popering, carpenter in a job shop
1950 - Melvin Shippy and his wife lived downstairs. He was a police Sgt. He planted peanuts along the side of his house. Upstairs lived his daughter, Mrs Patterson and her family. Her husband Lindy had grown up on a farm near my dad. He drove a truck for Toledo Glass Co. The door on the very front of the house led to the upstairs apartment while the other front door farther back on the left opened to the downstairs. There was a back inside stairway at the end of the left side. Their son was my best friend. He attended a boarding school, The State School for the Blind.
From article My neighborhood
From Heading History and the City of GrandRapids
From web site: MyCityofGrandRapids.info