Baker House
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N 42° 22.316 W 083° 27.963
17T E 296955 N 4694018
On the SE side of North Main between Fralick Avenue and Church streets. Easy parking SE on Church. Across from a great ice cream shop. Try the vanilla orange twist cone.
Waymark Code: WMEK4
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 06/10/2006
Views: 38
Henry W. Baker (1833-1920) built this Italianate-style house in 1875. Born in Richmond, New York, Baker had moved to this area while still a boy. As a young man, he worked as a photographer, a merchant and a lumberman. At the age of forty-nine he helped found the Plymouth Iron Windmill Company, which in 1895 became the Daisy Manufacturing Company. The company, now best known for its BB guns, operated in Plymouth until 1958, when new owners moved it to Arkansas. Baker's descendants lived here until 1943.
Historical Name: Henry W. Baker
Parking nearby?: yes
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Registered Site #: 874
Historical Date: Not listed
Description: Not listed
website: Not listed
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