Sparks-Anderson House Oshtemo Township, Michigan
National Register of Historic Places Data
Sparks-Anderson House has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000125
- Date Listed
- April 7, 2014
- Name
- Sparks-Anderson House
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 7653 W. Main St.
- City/Town
- Oshtemo Township
- County
- Kalamazoo
- State
- Michigan
- Category
- building
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ARCHITECTURE; EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The Sparks-Anderson House is significant under Criterion A for its association with the broad pattern of early settlement in Oshtemo Township and southern Michigan by Yankees from New England and upstate New York, and under Criterion C for the home's significance as the most intact remaining example of Greek Revival architecture in Oshtemo Township. The defined period of significance, 1852-66, begins with the house's 1852 date of construction and ends with the sale of the property out of the Sparks family who had it built.
