Historic Home or Property Research
Looking for answers to these questions about your home?
Who were the past owners?
What did the home originally look like?
When was the home built?
Where are the records regarding the home?
HOW DO I BEGIN?
The Longyear Library has many resources to help in conducting a home search and we will be happy to help.
Some of the main records pertaining to homes, buildings and property are:
1) Sanborn Maps
Microfilm and bound copies of Marquette County towns from the 1880’s to the 1940’s show physical characteristics of a home and the property
2) Photograph collection filed by street address, city scenes, birds-eye views, and people
3) Mining Journal index files of newspaper articles about residences by city and street
4) Marquette County and City Directories, a way to find out who lived in your home, using books available from 1873 to the present
5) U.S. Federal Census records, Marquette County 1850-1880 and 1900 -1930
6) Manuscript, “National Register of Historic Places, Arch and Ridge Street Historic District”
7) Pamphlet files of residential neighborhoods by street
8) Home appraisal ledger, documenting home value and year built
9) Centennial booklets and published histories of Marquette County communities
10) Blueprints of selected homes
You can review any of the above documents at the Longyear Library while searching for information about your home. Contact Librarian Rosemary Michelin at rmichelin@sbcglobal.net or call (906) 226-3571 for specific questions
Other written records are available at the following government offices:
| 1) Marquette County Register of Deeds office, (906) 225-8415 for list of owners and sale of property |
| 2) City Assessors records, for homes by address, with size of property, assessed value and year built. |
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Marquette (906) 228-0425
Ishpeming (906) 485-1091
Negaunee (906) 475-7200 |
State Historic Preservation Office
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