The Mann House is a historic home located at 205 Hanover Street in

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. It is a

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and is listed on the

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. It has been operated as a museum since 1970.

History

Daniel Sears Mann married Ellen E. Keeler in 1873. The couple lived on a farm outside of Concord. They had three children, one of whom died young. By the 1880s, the Manns felt that a house in town would be advantageous, so that their daughters, Jessie Ellen and Mary Ida, could attend school in Concord. They purchased property, and constructed this house 1883 through 1884. As the girls grew older, the house became a social center of the town. Jessie Ellen Mann received a degree from the

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in 1906, and afterward taught mathematics, primarily in the

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schools. She remained living in the house. Around the turn of the century, Mary Ida went to the

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as a teacher, and there married. She moved to various locations in the United States with her husband, but often visited Concord. When he died in 1942, Mary Ida moved back to her childhood home. In 1947, a modern kitchen was installed in the rear of the home. The sisters continued to live in the house until their deaths, Mary Ida died in 1959; Jessie Ellen lived in the house until she died in 1969. Their wills bequeathed the house to the people of Michigan. The Michigan Historical Center has operated it as a museum since 1970. The house was named a Michigan State Historic Site on June 18, 1970, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1970. The house is representative of 1880s middle-class household architecture.

Design

The mostly rectangular

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house was designed in the

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style. The walls are covered in

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siding. Above the entrance, at one corner, stands a pyramidal tower. The roof is a cross-

gable A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches. The shape of the gable and how it is detailed depends on the structural system used, which reflects climate, material availability, and aesth ...

with a small amount of

Eastlake Style The Eastlake movement was a nineteenth-century architectural and household design reform movement started by British architect and writer Charles Eastlake (1836–1906). The movement is generally considered part of the late Victorian period in t ...

trim on the

vergeboard Bargeboard (probably from Medieval Latin ''bargus'', or ''barcus'', a scaffold, and not from the now obsolete synonym "vergeboard") or rake fascia is a board fastened to each projecting gable of a roof to give it strength and protection, and to ...

s, front door, porch and gablets. A carriage house is located behind the house. There are three entrances to the house with porches. On the interior, the original floor had an entrance hall, parlor, sitting room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen, pantry, and wood-shed on the first floor, and five bedrooms on the second floor. The 1947 renovation added a kitchen in the first floor, and the woodshed was turned into a laundry room. The interior houses most of the original furnishings and household implements. The ceilings are plaster and there is a marbleized slate fireplace inside.

Gallery

File:Mann House 2.jpg, Front of house File:Mann House 3.jpg, One of the house's bedrooms File:Mann House 6.jpg, Carriage house

References

External links

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- official site at State of Michigan Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Michigan Michigan State Historic Sites Museums in Jackson County, Michigan Victorian architecture in Michigan Historic house museums in Michigan Houses in Jackson County, Michigan National Register of Historic Places in Jackson County, Michigan Residential buildings completed in 1884

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