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Here the year 1908 was a prominent expression of a memory, presented among brown hydrangea flowers and a downspout. by Tim Kiser

© Tim Kiser, all rights reserved.

Here the year 1908 was a prominent expression of a memory, presented among brown hydrangea flowers and a downspout.

In downtown Corunna, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, was a datestone at the "Cavalier Greene" apartments (originally the Shiawassee Street School, 09000130 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southwest corner of South Shiawassee Street (Highway M-71) and West State Street.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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There is too much space between "A." and "D.," and especially between "1903" and "4." The dash is too long and would look better as a hyphen, and I dislike the full stop after the 4. by Tim Kiser

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There is too much space between "A." and "D.," and especially between "1903" and "4." The dash is too long and would look better as a hyphen, and I dislike the full stop after the 4.

Ugh this is horrible. Also it was built from 1903 to 1906, not 1904.

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In downtown Corunna, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, was a datestone at the Shiawassee County Courthouse (82000546 on the National Register of Historic Places; built of Bedford limestone) at the southeast corner of North Shiawassee Street (Highway M-71) and East Corunna Avenue.

Bedford limestone, a/k/a Indiana limestone, is known geologically as the Salem Limestone formation of the Sanders group, formed during the Viséan Age of the Mississippian Subperiod of the Carboniferous Period of the Paleozoic Era, ~346.7 to ~330.9 million years ago.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Corunna (2051605)
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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
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A brick veneer doorway with messed-up venetian blinds; messed-up vertical blinds; and a pair of rusty metal columns in white paint. by Tim Kiser

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A brick veneer doorway with messed-up venetian blinds; messed-up vertical blinds; and a pair of rusty metal columns in white paint.

Across the street from the county courthouse!

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In downtown Corunna, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, on the west side of North Shiawassee Street (Highway M-71), south of West Corunna Avenue.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Corunna (2051605)
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Next, there was a door of oriented strand board in black paint. by Tim Kiser

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Next, there was a door of oriented strand board in black paint.

It was set in a doorway of "midcentury modern" design, probably from the 1950s or 1960s, with a pleasingly impractical diagonal canopy.

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In downtown Corunna, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, on the west side of North Shiawassee Street (Highway M-71), south of West McArthur Street.

According to Google Streetview, the OSB door was installed sometime between 2012 and 2018, and the bricks were painted black during this period also. The OSB door was painted black in 2018 or 2019.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
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In Corunna, Michigan, was a metal surround for a used car lot, with a pink and yellow sunburst painted on. by Tim Kiser

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In Corunna, Michigan, was a metal surround for a used car lot, with a pink and yellow sunburst painted on.

The car lot went out of business in 2014, per this good blog post, which details its later history as the "Cat House," a flamboyant protest by the lot's owner, in objection to the local government's enforcement of its property maintenance laws on his land. The pink and yellow sunburst dates from that later period.

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In downtown Corunna, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, on the north side of West Corunna Avenue (HIghway M-71), east of North Woodworth Street. "OWOSSO MOTOR SPORTS" is faintly legible on the sign. In Google Street View imagery from 2008, the business is identified as Show Me Used Cars.

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Ah the 19th century, it was a hugely important time for the U.S., in terms of buildings being built. by Tim Kiser

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Ah the 19th century, it was a hugely important time for the U.S., in terms of buildings being built.

And the 20th was a hugely important time for brick infills in select door openings of 19th-century buildings.

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In downtown Corunna, Michigan, on March 3rd, 2024, at the rear of a commercial building on the northwest corner of North Shiawassee Street and West Corunna Avenue (Highway M-71).

The building appears on an 1893 fire insurance map so it's at least that old.

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:
• Corunna (2051605)
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Michigan Historical Site: Corunna, MI by RickM2007

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Michigan Historical Site: Corunna, MI

Historical site sign for the J. Surbeck building in downtown Corunna, MI

Surbeck Building: Corunna, MI by RickM2007

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Surbeck Building: Corunna, MI

Former First National Bank building in Corunna (1865-1969). It was purchased by the county in 1970 and renamed the Surbeck building in 1982.