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Adam Crosswhite Homesite
Commemorates Adam Crosswhite, a freedom seeker whose 1846 defense by Marshall residents against slave catchers — the 'Crosswhite Affair' — became a national antislavery cause célèbre and influenced th...
Mary Marshall House
A Federal-style brick house from Marshall's founding decade, named for the wife of Chief Justice John Marshall, the city's namesake. Restrained five-bay façade with a fanlight entry.
Schuler House
Early-20th-century home tied to the Schuler family, whose Marshall restaurant became a Michigan institution. American Foursquare massing with a full-width porch.
Sheridan House
A late Gothic Revival cottage with steep cross gables and decorative vergeboard, on the south approach to the Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Perrin House
An Italianate residence with paired eave brackets and tall round-arched windows, one of several mid-century merchant homes east of the courthouse square.
Cronin House
A Queen Anne residence with an asymmetrical plan, wraparound porch, and a polygonal corner tower — representative of Marshall's turn-of-the-century building boom.
Harold C. Brooks House
Colonial Revival residence of Harold C. Brooks — manufacturer, mayor, and the preservationist most responsible for saving Marshall's historic fabric. Symmetrical façade with a classical pedimented ent...
John D. Pierce House
Greek Revival home associated with John D. Pierce, the first superintendent of public instruction in Michigan and architect of the state's free public school system.
G.A.R. Hall
A 1902 Grand Army of the Republic meeting hall built by Civil War veterans, later a city museum of veterans' memorabilia. Late Victorian brick with a prominent corner entrance.
Oaklawn (Charles T. Gorham House)
The Italianate residence of banker and diplomat Charles T. Gorham, set behind mature oaks on Kalamazoo Avenue's mansion row. Low-pitched roof, deep eave brackets, and a square cupola typical of the st...