This Old House

Mt Hope Highway, near Dow Road, in Roxand Township, Michigan. I've photographed this yard and house before--here, for one, before the front-yard tree fell.

I'm pretty sure the place was occupied in my memory, but it's been abandoned for a long time now and seems doomed.

The house evidently belonged to Herbert Codding--he's in the middle of this photo--in 1895, though I expect it was built before then. H.L. had an 80 acre farm, about typical for the immediate neighborhood at the time. Those small fields have been combined into a rather larger farm, these days.