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Hamlet of West Bloomfield and surrounding Area
Peck Homestead
Charles Web / Ainsworth House
Charles Web / Ainsworth House
The dwelling was built by, or for, Watrous Peck (1777-1862) in 1803. Watrous was a direct, sixth-generation descendant of William Peck (1601-1694).
Charles Web / Ainsworth House
Charles Web / Ainsworth House
Charles Web / Ainsworth House
The house, circa 1820, is illustrated on the 1859 hanging map of Ontario County and was more recently one of the homes illustrated in "The Victorian Era of the United States"
Bristol View Farms
Charles Web / Ainsworth House
Bristol View Farms
"..it is an old house but we are not really sure of the date it was built.... in 1976 we remodeled and found glued to the cracks of the planks, (walls) newspapers dated 1815.
Gardner House
Pinewood Service Station
Bristol View Farms
The actual settlement of West Bloomfield began when Peregrine Gardner came and built a house on the old Indian Trail, now 5&20 near this residence.
Henry Brown House
Pinewood Service Station
Pinewood Service Station
This large Queen Anne farm house was built in 1901.
Pinewood Service Station
Pinewood Service Station
Pinewood Service Station
It was the first prefabricated building to be erected on Route 5&20. it was purchased from the Gordon-Van Tine Company in Davenport, Iowa.
West Bloomfield Town Hall
West Bloomfield Town Hall
West Bloomfield Town Hall
Built in 1823 as a house of worship on the corner lot of Rt. 37. About 1848, it was moved to its current location on Rt. 5 and 20.
Shackleton House
West Bloomfield Town Hall
West Bloomfield Town Hall
Built in 1894 for James Elton and his Wife Mary as a wedding present from her father.
Hendee House
West Bloomfield Town Hall
Isabella Ainsley Peck House
Stephen and Lydia Hendee operated as a store. In 1867 it was sold to Charles and Hannah Hendee. Fire burned original house in 1891.
Isabella Ainsley Peck House
Isabella Ainsley Peck House
Isabella Ainsley Peck House
Built in 1876 by Stephen H. Ainsworth as a gift to his daughter Isabella and her husband R.M. Peck.
John and Mary Dickson House
Isabella Ainsley Peck House
John and Mary Dickson House
Built circa 1835 by John Dickson, a lawyer in West Bloomfield, and a member of the 22nd and 23rd United States Congress (1831-1835).
Taft House
Isabella Ainsley Peck House
John and Mary Dickson House
This is a very early home. It originally was owned by the Taft family. It is built of bricks.
Johnson Tavern
Wilcox Pottery Factory
Wilcox Pottery Factory
This house was built on or before 1804. It is of bricks that were made, formed and cured in the yard. It was built as a stage coach stop and called the Johnson's Tavern
Wilcox Pottery Factory
Wilcox Pottery Factory
Wilcox Pottery Factory
This was the site of Alvin Wilcox pottery. The Wilcox family moved here from New England in 1781.
Hewitt Homestead
Wilcox Pottery Factory
Silas Brown House
A tavern once stood here and the present residence is a part of the old hotel. Henry and Harriet Humphrey Hewitt purchased this home in the late 1890's and Carrie Hewitt was still living here at age 98.
Silas Brown House
Pierpont Homestead
Silas Brown House
The wooden rear part of the house was built before sawmills existed. The 2x4s were hewn out and the beams were also hewn.
The brick part of the house was built by Reverend Silas Brown in 1828 and this house remained in the Brown family for many years.
Pierpont Homestead
Pierpont Homestead
Pierpont Homestead
1841 portion of house completed for Warren Pierpont. 1937 Joseph and Dora Taylor.
West Bloomfield Hamlet of Ionia
Locust Lawn
Cobblestone School
Cobblestone School
Locust Lawn Restaurant, Strong Road - circa 1950
Cobblestone School
Cobblestone School
Cobblestone School
Millers Corners (Ionia) Cobblestone School at 2138 Elton Road built in 1850, used until 1902 when the rear wall fell in.
Ionia 4-corners
Cobblestone School
Methodist Church
Upper & Lower Stores at the Ionia 4-corners, circa 1902
Methodist Church
Triangle Building
Methodist Church
Millers Corners (Ionia) Methodist Church, Elton Road, built in 1840
Peanut Line
Triangle Building
Triangle Building
Peanut Line Train tracks passing through the Ionia 4-corners, looking west, 1908
Triangle Building
Triangle Building
Triangle Building
Triangle Building at the Ionia 4-corners, built in 1878 and used until it burned down in 1917 when a spark from a passing train ignited the building!
West Bloomfield Hamlet of North Bloomfield
Martin Road School
Martin Road School
Martin Road School
Martin Road School. Built as a Universalist Church in 1829, this building was first used as a schoolroom in 1842. Classes were taught here until 1949.
Brooks Paper Mill
Martin Road School
Martin Road School
The first mill in North Bloomfield was built circa 1794. Others followed and the hamlet became a center of commerce in the 1800s. Pictured here is the Neel Brothers and Brooks Paper Mill.