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Keith and Suzette Kolfage, the owners of 508 N. Robert St., in Ludington, Mich., shown on Feb. 9, found historical items while renovating during the past few months. When the Kolfages, latest owners of the house started to open up walls to make updates, they also found more than plaster dust. “We found stenciling on the boards (in the walls). There was a logo and a company name. It was for a hat maker in New York City. The address on it still exists in lower Manhattan.” (AP photo)
LUDINGTON, Mich. The little house at 508 N. Robert St. is an enigma.
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Question of the Day Keith and Suzette Kolfage, the owners of 508 N. Robert St., in Ludington, Mich., shown on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, found historical items while renovating during the past few months. When the Kolfages, latest owners of the house started to . more >LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) - The little house at 508 N. Robert St. is an enigma.
The house featured prominently in a Daily News column by Raymond C. Madsen on Aug. 5, 2016. He called it, “A house of historical mystery.”
Records showed that it was first recorded in its current location in the 1880s, Madsen wrote.
How did a tiny house in west Michigan come to contain civil war-era newspapers, lumber from Manhattan, and other artifacts? The house is still holding onto answers to these mysteries.
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