Applewood Farm Publications - Our 1860 Greek Revival Home

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Applewood
Farm is the name we have
given to our old homestead. It is
13.5 acres of woods and meadow
here in central Michigan, USA

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The house was built during the 1800's logging boom in Michigan. During that period Saginaw sawmills processed about 5 BILLION board feet of lumber. As a result, the house is built with probably 4 times more wood than an equivalent house today. (For example the walls are sheathed with one inch planking under the 3/4" weatherboard siding.)

Our home is an 1860 vernacular Greek Revival. It was built at the
end of the Greek Revival era and just at the start of the Civil War
by John Ure. John was the son of Andrew Ure who moved here
with his family in 1833. This was the third house the Ures built
on the property. The farm grew to about 250 acres in it's heyday.
The house was once larger that it is today. The kitchen in the back
was torn down and moved into the living room in the forties. The
parlor is now the living room. The old place stills has most of the
original windows, hardware, doors, floors, siding. etc. Greek
Revival is an American style popular in the early 1800's. It is
characterized by the roof pitch and pediments, the columns and
side lights at the entry as well as the small frieze windows over
the porch. This house is a "vernacular" because it is too small
to have some full Greek Revival elements like full columns
across the front and a central entry way.
If you have a similar house we would like to hear from you.

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