Tavern, Fire Station, Temple, Park

Everything a downtown needs, I suppose.

Main Street, downtown Mulliken, Michigan. Another view of Farmer's Steakhouse, next door to the the Township Hall and Fire Station; then the Masonic Temple across the sidestreet from the fire barn. Beyond the Masons is Mulliken's downtown park; the building in the distance is the park pavilion.

The same fire that did in the Mulliken Library destroyed the Fire Station (they shared the building). That's an embarrassing way to get a new fire building, but the new one certainly looks better than its predecessor, and appears to be far more functional.

The Masonic Temple is apparently one of the buildings which moved from Hoytville in 1888. Friends tell me it used to be an attractive building, but they covered everything with siding a couple decades back. Now it's just a big white box.

It seems to be my day to complain about featureless siding....