National Register of Historic Places Registration Form

NPS Form 10-900 OMB No. 1024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form

This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions.

1. Name of Property Historic name: _Paint Creek Cider Mill, Paint Creek Mill ______Other names/site number: _Hemingway Mill, Goodison Mill, Oakland Mill_ Name of related multiple property listing: _N/A______(Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing ______2. Location Street & number: __4480 Orion Road, Oakland Township, Michigan 48306 City or town: _Oakland Township___ State: _Michigan __ County: Oakland Not For Publication: Vicinity: ______3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this nomination ___ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property ___ meets ___ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: ___national ___statewide ___local Applicable National Register Criteria: ___A ___B ___C ___D

Signature of certifying official/Title: Date ______State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government

In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria.

Signature of commenting official: Date

Title : State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government

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______4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register determined eligible for the National Register determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain:) ______

______Signature of the Keeper Date of Action ______5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) Private:

Public – Local X

Public – State

Public – Federal

Category of Property (Check only one box.)

Building(s)

District

Site X

Structure

Object

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Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) Contributing Noncontributing __1 (Paint Creek Cider Mill) ______buildings

__1 Paint Creek Millrace ______sites

__1 Sluice Box at Gallagher __1 Control Structure structures

______objects

__3 Contributing ______1 Noncontributing Total

Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register ______6. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) Agriculture / Subsistence Industry / Processing / Extraction Transportation / Rail-related Commerce Trade / Restaurant

Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.)

Social / Meeting Hall Recreation and Culture Commerce / Trade / Business Government / Government Offices Domestic / Township Site

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______7. Description

Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.)

__Modern______Other: Swiss Chalet______

Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) Principal exterior materials of the property: ______

Wood, Brick, Glass, Metal (Copper and Steel), Stone, Asphalt, Concrete

Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has historic integrity.) ______Summary Paragraph

The Paint Creek Cider Mill is located in the hub of Goodison, the little hamlet community settled in 1827, in Oakland Township, Michigan. It sits along the banks of the Paint Creek sandwiched between Orion Road, the main thoroughfare, and the Paint Creek. Running parallel to the building is the Paint Creek Trail, a community recreation gem and the very first established Rail- to-Trail in the State of Michigan, converted from abandoned 1871 railroad lines. The Modern architecture of the Paint Creek Cider Mill is unique to the rural area. Dale O. Miller, local entrepreneur, had the vision to bring a cider mill to the central location and incorporate the water-power of the millrace to produce electricity at the Paint Creek Cider Mill. D. Miller purchased the site in 1945, when he also purchased the industrial buildings across Orion Road, which he expanded, called Rochester Gear Works factory which manufactured specialized worms for precision instruments for World War II. The original location had the only gristmill built in 1835 that contributed to the settlement of Oakland Township. The 110-year old gristmill was water-powered by a millrace, hand-dug by one of the earliest settlers, Needham Hemingway.

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After 1945, the well-known architectural firm Giffels and Rossetti was hired to design the modern day building, incorporating the water-power and water-wheel into the design. The material used was industrial in construction technique, reusing huge steel beams salvaged from the deconstruction of the Henry Ford Trade School. The design development spanned more than a decade in planning, with the first phase of buildings completed by 1960, and the connecting bridge joining the structures, completed by 1968. The massive scale and steep roof pitches are of grand impression by travelers heading through Goodison. A turning water-wheel is connected to the north side of the building facing the automobile travelers, and has the visual invitation to stop in for fresh apple cider. The Paint Creek Cider Mill is a local landmark for the Greater Rochester area.

______Narrative Description

The Paint Creek Cider Mill sits on the bank of Paint Creek, a tributary to the Clinton River Watershed, in the hamlet of Goodison, Oakland Township, Oakland County, Michigan. Originally a gristmill for most of its existence, it became a cider mill following reconstruction in the later 1950s, and today serves multi-purposes, including governmental offices. The milling heritage at this location has been a constant fixture since the first mill was built by Needham Hemingway in 1835. In 1945, Mr. Dale O. Miller Sr., purchased the 110- year old gristmill and had hoped to restore the building and convert into cider mill operations and harness the water- power from the Paint Creek with use of a breast-shot waterwheel. Dale O. Miller Sr. had great interest in technology, electrical generation and milling history. In 1945, when he purchased the mill site, he also purchased the closing box-factory across Orion Road, were he moved his Rochester Gear Works business. This business was the only industrial industry in Goodison, and remains a working Gear factory today. D. Miller was a significant person in the development of Goodison, bringing people to the area, and providing jobs. The gristmill’s structural support was compromised, and in the early 1950s, the mill was deconstructed. Original hand-hewn timbers and building stock were salvaged for Miller’s vision to construct a cider mill. The well-known architectural firms of Giffels & Valet Inc., Giffels and Rossetti together played a role, while Giffels and Rossetti designed the current day Modern building. Contact with L. Gino Rossetti revealed the mill building was one of his first design projects as a young architect. The Modern architectural style reflects both a contemporary 1950-60s feel and Swiss Chalet influence in the bold forms and crisp details of the two component sections, with their long slanting roofs, expansive overhangs, vertical board siding, stonework, and multitude of large windows. The location of the cider mill sits on the site of the first gristmill built in 1835 by Needham Hemmingway, one of the first settlers to the area. It was later owned and operated by William

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Goodison, giving its name to the settlement. Today, the Paint Creek Cider Mill continues to be a central part of the community’s social core, celebrating the milling (grist, saw, flour, grain, apples) history at this location - one hundred-eighty years later. The Paint Creek Cider Mill is the landmark building just as Orion Road heads north and crosses the Paint Creek twice, and then bends to the left, slowing traffic that weaves through the hamlet of Goodison. To the north, is several historic houses scattered along Collins Road and a Church. Directly across the road is a brick one-story factory previously owned by D. Miller as The Rochester Gear Works, and now called Lyon Gear. Further north is a two-story general country market, garage, and two veterinary clinics. Goodison has surprisingly retained its rural, agrarian character, just four miles north of neighboring cities Rochester and Rochester Hills.

Paint Creek Cider Mill The Paint Creek Cider Mill is a modern 20th century revival with influence of Swiss Chalet style. The extensive use of large windows with open fenestration, gable roof with wide eaves, exterior balconies, are all characteristic of Swiss Chalet architecture. The structure was built in a series of three stages with two separated buildings; one front-gable form and one side-gable form, which were later joined by a connecting, very long, addition. Construction started in 1958 of the two-story, front-gabled wheel room which was located near the original site of Hemingway’s gristmill, and measures 26’ x 70. The second two-story building to the east was designed as the cider mill, built in 1960-1961 with dimensions of 49’ x 65’. There is a 20’ x 30’ addition on the south side of the building. In 1968 a permit was pulled by D. Miller for the addition of a 61’ long gallery “bridge” addition, joining the wheel room the cider mill buildings together. When the bridge connection was completed in 1969, the entire buildings dimensions were approximately 196’ long and 49’ wide (at cider mill) and 26’ wide (at the wheel room).

Steel framing was used with expansive steel triangular trusses. The gable ends structural framing are of king post design. The roof line of each gabled section is a salt box style, with a raking board, absent cornice, and projecting eaves spanning some 8’ beyond the foot print. Steel brackets are spaced approximately every 10’ on the roof. The brackets are squared off 10” x 4” I-beams. The saltbox roof overhang covers an additional porch area of the cider mill and also the building main entrance. Square copper gutters compliment the building’s mass. The roofing deck is made of wood 2” x 6”-7” tongue and grooved salvaged from another building demo in the 1950s. The roof is clad in asphalt shingles, dark grey in color and shaped in a small square pattern. An uncoursed, cut fieldstone chimney protrudes through the roof line of the wheel room, west of the ridgepole.

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The foundation is poured concrete with heavy course aggregate in addition to concrete block faced with large uncoursed cut fieldstone, some veneers. A 15” steel I-beam is used as a sill plate along the bridge. The framing of the building is done with steel I-beams in different sizes. The framing rafters are 11” x 4” which span the length of the building horizontally. 2” x 6”-7” wood planks run vertical between the rafters. Huge trusses made with angle iron steel beams run form roof to floor in triangular support. The framing ends are king post design with fans of steel beams to the roof ends. Also large mostly square 9” x 9” up to 15” x 15” wood beams saved from the original mill are used for vertical corner support throughout the first floor level, and some ornamental use. On the interior of the roof overhang above the porch, five steel I-beams are spaced 20’ apart with wood rafters. The steel beams and roofing planks were purchased by Dale O. Miller from the sale of material when the Walter Reuther Ford Trade School closed.

The exterior walls are vertical plank rough sawn wood, board and batten siding. The exterior siding is painted dark brown. Red brick is documented on the lower walls at three feet in height. The south rear building wall (Creek side) is orange brick. An addition of an exterior stairway, south side of the wheel room, is used for access to the 2nd floor, and is brick with three small glass-block windows, diagonally placed to follow the interior stairwell for lighting.

At the main northern entrance under the porch covering, there are two entrances; one to the cider mill and the other to the local offices meeting space and upstairs offices. There is a third doorway that is the exit for the cider mill. The porch area flooring is made with grey square brick pavers, designed in a circular pattern, installed in 2007 when Oakland Township converted the restaurant section into office and community meeting space.

A concrete ledge balcony is located on the north façade on the bridge gallery between two floors of windows. This 3’ balcony has hardware for six flagpoles and on occasion American Flags decorate the building’s exterior. A south facing deck area, sandwiched between the building and the Paint Creek, overlooks a steep, 15’ embankment, is under construction and slated for replacement of concrete material to withstand damp creek-side conditions.

There is a massive field stone chimney rising 50’ on the north facing façade of the wheel room, measuring 108” wide and protruding 28” from the building which took Miller one year and seven months to complete. The chimney rises approximately 10’ beyond the roof line. A concrete block chimney is located to the south side of the cider mill building for purposes as an exhaust. The cider mill also has a service door on the south side and a door that enters directly to a large walk-in refrigerator. The main entrance to office space opens by double door into a ceramic tiled vestibule.

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Windows are a main feature of the Paint Creek Cider Mill, much like the style of Swiss Chalet architecture. The two-story gallery has large 5’x5’ fixed windows on both sides spanning the entire length of the passage. There are eight windows on the 2nd floor and nine windows on the 1st floor and they each have 12-lights per window in balanced fenestration. The façade of the wheel room has ten of the same fixed, 12-light windows in a five-over-five symmetry. To the right of the first floor entrance are four unique steel casement windows salvaged from the Webber estate in Detroit (affiliated with Hudson’s). There are less East facing windows on the building with only three casement windows on the second level and one ten-light fixed window on the first level. There are no windows on the west side of the building as that view is the elongated roofing pitch. The 2007 building project added six skylight windows on the cider mill roofing pitch facing north on the Orion Road side. These skylights offer interior lighting for upstairs office space.

The floor plan for the building is different on each level. The first floor is open with large meeting rooms and an open gallery including; two small storage areas, (one for mechanical the other for supplies). The current cider mill restaurant café is located on the first level with a large kitchen, counter space, seating area, and two accessible bathrooms. The second level is office space, two accessible bathrooms, storage, and kitchen. The office space over the gallery protrudes 8’over the 1st floor space.

Much of the interior walls and ceilings are finished with Pecky Cypress cut wood in 10” vertical planks. Pecky Cypress is wood that appears to have worm holes throughout making it prized for its decorative purpose. Other wall finishes in the parlor meeting area which is a smaller conference room, consists of solid oak wainscot, salvaged from Prohibition Era mansions in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. The Paint Creek Cider Mill continues its history of benefiting from the reuse of a variety of salvaged material.

On the first level there are stained glass windows with a colorful trout fishing scene, designed by the Williams Art Glass Studio Oxford, Michigan (Michigan Stained Glass Census 2003.0011) working with artist Art Nowoski in 2000. Other decorative interior features include oak plinth door trim hand-made by William G. Mancour, and a canvas mural painted by Jim Jeffries, depicting the Detroit Urban Railway (DUR) stop in Goodison on its way to Flint, Michigan. The Paint Creek Cider Mill building has other local heritage displayed, including 1916 then owner, Maurice Collin’s Blacksmith anvil and the original wooden counter from William Goodison’s General Store, which was located next to the mill ca. 1870s. As the Paint Creek Cider Mill was built in the same location of Goodison’s only gristmill, one large grind stone remains on site near the waterwheel, paying homage for one hundred-five years of grinding grist. Another valuable

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Paint Creek Cider Mill Oakland, Michigan Name of Property County and State asset located in the wheel room near the water wheel is the original 1890’s generator that will be discussed more later.

The flooring varies throughout the building; on the first floor there is wide plank pine flooring running the length of the gallery, which was installed when the building was constructed. The wheel room has carpet laid over an 8” concrete slab, which also covers a section of the turbine chamber. There is an open steel grate that exposed the gears mechanics for the water wheel. The turbine pit remains under the floor of the wheel room. The wheel room also has a movable track called a crane way, in the first floor ceiling for hoisting mechanical equipment in and out of the pits.

Dale O. Miller installed a steel breast-shot waterwheel made by the Fitz Waterwheel Company in 1957. The rotating wheel was connected to an 1890’s Thomas A. Edison Bi-polar generator with serial number 455, said to have been donated by Henry Ford I. In 1990, the steel wheel was replaced with a wooden wheel, hand machined with forty-five oak paddles and weighing over two tons. Additional electricity was added when the buildings were built in the 1960s-1970s. There are three wall units of 1200 amp pull boxes for electricity for the entire building. Wiring is housed inside metal conduit throughout the building. Lighting fixtures vary with some dating back to the 1960s, while the gallery lights are whimsical dropped canvas shades decorated with carved trout fish. Many of the new lights for office use in the second level are standard 2’ x 4’ florescent ceiling boxes.

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______8. Statement of Significance

Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.)

A. Property is associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history.

X B. Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past.

X C. Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction.

D. Property has yielded, or is likely to yield, information important in prehistory or history.

Criteria Considerations (Mark “x” in all the boxes that apply.)

A. Owned by a religious institution or used for religious purposes

B. Removed from its original location

C. A birthplace or grave

D. A cemetery

E. A reconstructed building, object, or structure

F. A commemorative property

G. Less than 50 years old or achieving significance within the past 50 years

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Areas of Significance (Enter categories from instructions.)

Architecture______Commerce______

Period of Significance 1960-2005: Paint Creek Cider Mill and Restaurant

Significant Dates: 1958-1960: Construction of Paint Creek Cider Mill (wheel room and cider mill buildings)—new design, same location 1969: Connecting Gallery/Bridge constructed

1976: William Mancour purchase 1996: Raymond Nicholson purchase 2005: Donation to Charter Township of Oakland 2007: Renovations for ADA compliance

Original Gristmill: June 4, 1825: Hemingway land purchase 1835: Mill built 1836: Millrace dug by Hemingway 1866: Purchase by William Goodison 1916: Purchase by Maurice Collins 1945- Change of Ownership to Dale O. Miller 1952: Deconstruction and beam storage

Significant Persons: Miller, Dale Orville

Cultural Affiliation Undefined

Architect/Builder: Giffels & Rossetti (Ray Giffels and later Louie Gino Rossetti) Dziurman, John from John Dziurman Architects Ltd.

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______Statement of Significance Summary Paragraph

Organized in 1827 as one of the original twenty-five Townships within the formation of the Michigan Territory, Oakland Township remains among the oldest. The rolling hills and good soil attracted early settlers to the area by Paint Creek. Needham Hemingway, a farmer from Monroe County, New York, came to Michigan in 1824. Hemingway purchased a total of 80-acres from the United States Government in Section 28 on June 4, 1825. He built the original gristmill in 1835 and dammed Paint Creek, digging a millrace one-half mile to the north to divert water from Paint Creek to his gristmill. Due to rolling topography and drop in elevations, the millrace had a very strong current. A square box flume, or also called sluice, funneled water into a large penstock that diverted the water to a ‘drum’ or ‘flag’ wheel, into the lower-level of the gristmill, which geared shafts that turned two grind-stones.

N. Hemingway was born in Whitestown, New York November 1, 1793. Hemingway moved with his parents to Chili, Monroe County, New York at seventeen. He married Merrilla, with their union producing eleven children. In 1824 Needham, Merrilla and four of their children traveled by ox team to Buffalo, New York and crossed Lake Erie to Michigan. They settled in the Pontiac area for a time before making the move to Paint Creek (Goodison) in 1827, where he constructed a shanty for his family. Not only did he build the first recorded gristmill in Goodison, he also built the first frame house in the township, and platted the area in 1843. His association with the settlement of Goodison includes engineering a millrace without the use of a millpond above the dam, to use water-power for grinding grains, and later for sawing timbers which contributed to the development of the surrounding area of Oakland Township. The Native American Indian trail, widened for the passage of wagons and later named Territorial Road, used timbers for bridges sawn at the mill.

In 1844 Hemingway sold the gristmill and the surrounding eighty acres to his two sons Freeman and Henry. Between 1846 until 1854, the property passed through several other owners before William Goodison purchased it from William Green in 1866 for $3,600. W. Goodison granted the Detroit & Bay City Railroad (later the Michigan Central) an easement through the west section in 1872. After the laying of railroad tracks, Goodison built a general store east of the mill, with a post office established in 1874. That same year saw the railroad establish the first “flag station” next to the gristmill; the stop and settlement became known as Goodison Station. In 1876, Goodison built an addition of 18-feet to the south side of the mill, extending its length to 70-feet, improving the operations to accommodate a greater crop yield. A sawmill was also added just slightly east of the gristmill, within the series of buildings along the Paint Creek.

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William Goodison was born in Manchester, Lancashire, England May 16, 1806. He married Susannah, also from Manchester, and around 1832 they immigrated to New Jersey, and later moving to Oakland County, Michigan. W. Goodison helped to further establish the settlement that Hemingway initiated by purchasing the gristmill and eighty acres of property in 1866. An easement through the west section of the property granted passage to the Detroit & Bay City Railroad (later Michigan Central which was a subsidiary of New York Central), becoming the first railroad “flag station,” in Oakland Township. W. Goodison also ran the general store and post office built slightly east of the gristmill. With each of these developments the settlement continued to grow and the rail stop quickly became known as Goodison Station.

After W. Goodison died in 1879, his estate divided the land, eventually selling to Joseph Ramie and Samuel Barnes in 1881. Samuel Barnes quit claimed 60-acres of the property to his wife, selling the other 8-acres. The Barnes family sold the mill in 1913 after 32 years of ownership. Partners, Cramer and Bingham, bought the gristmill from the Barnes family, was renamed Oakland Mills, and produced pure stone ground, buck wheat flour. The new owners, Cramer and Bingham, realizing a good head and flow of water from the Paint Creek millrace, added a Leffel & Samson Turbine to provide even more water-power to the mill.

In 1916, Maurice Collins, the local blacksmith, purchased the mill and general store, and he added an additional sawmill adjacent to the south of the gristmill. At Maurice Collins death in 1941, the mill ceased to grind grist, yet adaptive machinery was still used for other productivity, such as making potato crates and frames for shipping automobile wheels. From 1941 to 1945, Ellen Collins (his wife) and Clara and Frank Voll (his daughter and son-in-law) owned and operated the mill, general store, blacksmith shop, and a box factory located across the road (which had been a garage with gasoline pumps, and later became part of the Rochester Gear Works).1

In 1945, entrepreneur Dale O. Miller, Sr. purchased sixty acres of the former Hemingway- Goodison property on Collins Road from the Volls. This included the original gristmill, general store, sawmill and blacksmith shop, including the factory across Territorial Road that became Rochester Gear Works. During World War II, the mill building became a box operation and storage for apples and potato crates. Miller hoped to restore the mill building and convert it into a cider mill with a self-sustaining electrical generation plant, utilizing available water power. From a statement in The Rochester Era on December 6, 1945, Miller is quoted, “We are going to clean up the whole place, rebuild the 125-year old mill, and install a modern water-wheel and a modern generator to produce electricity for lighting the streets and buildings around Goodison, using the old millrace which the early settlers dug 125 years ago.” However by 1952, the

1 Kelly, Delta. Some History of the Goodison Settlement. Research notes. October 1979

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Paint Creek Cider Mill Oakland, Michigan Name of Property County and State structure had deteriorated beyond repair. By mid-1950s, Miller dismantled the building and salvaged original material to reuse in the construction of the new mill.

D. Miller Sr. worked with architect Ray Giffels, founder of and partner with Giffels, Valet, and Rossetti (Giffels &Valet Inc., Giffels and Rossetti, and Rossetti Associates). Raymond Francis (Ray) Giffels, was a neighbor of Miller’s in Birmingham, Michigan. The new building would house Miller’s vision of a cider mill, restaurant, and electrical generation plant using the water-power from the Paint Creek Millrace. D. Miller Sr. had recently traveled to Switzerland, and found a new admiration for the Swiss Architecture, which has contributed to the Modern design of the current mill building. Young architect, L. Gino Rossetti (Gino) worked for Giffels in the 1950s and worked on the designs the new building. Communication from Gino Rossetti expressed the mill building was his first building design project while in his twenties working for Mr. Ray Giffels. G. Rossetti stated D. Miller wanted a unique design with open space to attract tourists for cider and donuts. Early concept renderings in pastel medium, donated to the Historic District Commission by Mr. William G. Mancour, illustrate the Modern style building renderings. The architectural site sketch, which includes the late 1960s bridge connector addition, bears the stamp ‘Giffels and Rossetti.’ D. Miller Sr. described in his memoirs the early plans, “One very desirable thing, Detroit installed a 54” diameter concrete sanitary sewer clean out to serve Lake Orion and Oxford. Goodison had them cross under the Michigan Central RR tracks to get a sewer up to the school. It crossed the lot of the old Flour Mill and we took out a permit for the Rochester Gear Co. and the Old Mill with the idea of a cider mill and a restaurant at this location. We found a 36” x 36” hydraulic press which we over-hauled with a new leather hydraulic cylinder piston. All of these things sound simple but it took about fifteen years to design and build the building, furnish the business and get equipment installed.” *Note: The Farquar hydraulic press was 48” x 48” with a 24” piston with leather seals.

Miller purchased steel I-beams to frame the building from the sale of material when the Walter Reuther Ford Trade School closed. From personal records of D. Miller Sr., “Everything was used. Nobody could afford new steel and machinery. The concrete was new but that’s all. Walter Reuther closed the Ford Trade School and we bought all their steel trusses and the 2” X 6” tongue and grooved roofing.”

The complex of three united structures, were built in succession beginning with the Wheel Room in 1958, the Cider Mill in 1960, and the connecting bridge beginning from 1969. The architectural design incorporated a five foot wide – fifteen foot diameter steel waterwheel made in 1957 by Fitz Waterwheel Company, from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. D. Miller Sr. described the waterwheel, “It takes two men to lift one spoke. It rotates 10 RPM. I found a speed increaser gear box made by the Philadelphia Gear Works. The second step was belts. The

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Paint Creek Cider Mill Oakland, Michigan Name of Property County and State wheel generated electricity using an 1890 Bi-Polar generator made by Thomas A. Edison (Serial NO. 544) and donated by Henry Ford Sr. The Edison Bi-Polar D.C. 110 Volt generator runs at about 1500 RPM, 8.6 kilowatt direct current.”

On occasion, Miller allowed his factory employees from across the road at Rochester Gear Works, to eat their lunchtime meals in the wheel room. The “dining” room featured knob and tube light fixtures with carbon filament bulbs and emerald green shades, all powered by the waterwheel. Later, one of the first commercial uses in the wheel room was an antique business called Bailiwick Gift Antiques. The antiques business was at this location for only a few years.

In 1976, William G. (Jerry) and Lucy Mancour purchased the Paint Creek Cider Mill from D. Miller Sr. Mancour’s ownership of the Paint Creek Cider Mill was from 1976 until 1996, revving up the cider mill and establishing the restaurant. Mancour previously owned a hardware store in West Bloomfield, Michigan that was frequented by Dale O. Miller Sr. Miller appreciated the expertise of Mancour, they became friends, and after several years of perseverance, Miller talked Mancour into buying the business. The Mancour family worked to expand the cider mill operations to include a small restaurant. Cider mill operations blossomed during this time period and became a local favorite in the Oakland County area drawing crowds of 10,000 visitors. On fall weekends, cars packed the parking lot and lines formed while families waited to purchase cider, donuts, and baked goods.

The 1970s and 1980s saw technological building adaptions for electrical capacity, however, the water-power from the Paint Creek millrace continued to operate for aesthetic purposes and was utilized for lighting the emerald green carbon filament bulbs in the wheel room. By the 1980s, W. Mancour added to the cider mill operations, the restaurant, a pub and banquet facility, and renamed the complex the Paint Creek Cider Mill and Restaurant.

On May 16, 1982, a Historic Plaque Presentation was awarded to the Mancour family in celebration of the Hemingway mill site, commemorating the history of the original mill. On behalf of members from the Oakland Township Historical Society, Mrs. Alice Tomboulian presented the plaque in a statement, “Mr. Mancour has understood the community’s goals for Goodison as a viable commercial center within a valid historical context. Goodison has served and should continue to serve, the business needs of Oakland Township people and our visitors with a unique style.” Needham Hemingway’s great granddaughter, Mary Hemingway Hayes, attended the presentation as well as several descendants of Maurice Collins. Delta Kelly, forty year educator and local historian, well known in Oakland Township (later a school was named after her) was also in attendance.

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By the early 1990s, the 1957 steel Fitz waterwheel was showing signs of deterioration. After attempting to find a company to restore the wheel, W. Mancour rebuilt it himself. In 1993, Mancour replaced the Fitz Waterwheel with the wooden wheel which remains the current wheel today. Using the Fitz steel design as a guide, he made the wooden replacement. The replica wheel included forty-eight, hand-machined, white oak paddles, weighing over two tons. In a Detroit Free Press article, Scott Simons, a Detroit Edison spokesperson, stated the restored wheel could generate enough power to light two houses! The same article also noted that Kathryn Eckert, then the State Historic Preservation Officer, indicated the rarity of an operating waterwheel for electricity in Michigan. Mancour maintained all the working functions of providing water-power from the Paint Creek Millrace to deliver water to his mill. He maintained the head race where the water diverted from Paint Creek at the section where the DUR tracks ran. He also maintained the millrace, sluice box, penstock, forebay, waterwheel, turbine pit, mechanical pit, and tailrace.

Raymond J. and Mary Nicholson purchased the complex from the Mancour family in 1996, continuing its central gathering place for Goodison as a cider mill, restaurant, and pub. The waterwheel functioned from 1960 until 1998, at which time an electrical switch to turn the wheel replaced the water-powered electrical generation. At that time, the working forebay that directed water over the wheel was disconnected, however, the mechanical pit, water chamber, and turbine pit remain in place under the floor in the wheel room building.

R. Nicholson donated the building to Oakland Township in late 2005. The Township hired historic architect, John Dziurman of John Dziurman Architects, Ltd. for the adaptive reuse of the building for upstairs offices and public accessibility. An exterior housed elevator addition in 2006, provided compliance with the American’s with Disability Act, for public access to the second level space. Current uses include: meeting space, not-for-profit offices, local government offices, and tenant leasing the cider mill space called the Paint Creek Cider Mill LLC. Many residents identify with the Paint Creek Cider Mill site which remains an important gathering place for people in surrounding communities. The site is located parallel to the Paint Creek Trail, which is also a designated portion of the State of Michigan Iron Belle Trail network.

When the mill site entered the second period of its existence in a Modern style designed working cider mill, its history carried forward adapting with new technology and growth in the community. Several significant features in quality workmanship include the masonry, woodworking, and use of the original historic fabric which aid in the historic context. The building has a sense of feeling of days long past upon entrance into the mill. The mill location has always been associated with the names of prominent individuals such as Needham Hemingway, original founder of the area, and William Goodison, named for the settlement.

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______Narrative Statement of Significance (Provide at least one paragraph for each area of significance.)

The Paint Creek Cider Mill meets National Register criteria B and C. The mill meets criterion B (Property is associated with the lives of persons significant in our past) at the local level due the association to Dale Orville Miller Sr. who purchased the mill site in 1945. Since the construction of the Paint Creek Cider Mill, a number of people help highlight its history, however, Miller is associated with the design and construction of the mill, which still maintains its connection to our heritage, in the location and use of a water-power mill within a local historical context. The Paint Creek Cider Mill evidences the single most important building in Goodison for several reasons. The Modern design is unique to the community and stands alone in its architectural features and construction technique more industrial for Goodison. The volume of separated spaces and roof lines are designed to envelope and embrace these distinct features. Another unique feature is that the building design incorporates a “bridge” between two major components of the wheel room and cider mill, under which the water from the millrace tailrace flowed (hence the term bridge) back into the Paint Creek. The design incorporated existing man-made features such as the millrace and use of waterpower, as well as making use of existing natural features as the black locust tree was incorporated into growing through the cider mill roof. Individually the separate forms would not add up to the prominent building standing today, yet united they contribute to the significance, history, and setting in the hamlet of Goodison. The building is a central feature and anchor within the local community of Oakland Township.

Criterion B: Persons that are associated with the lives of persons significant in our past.

Dale Orville Miller Sr. (18 July 1897 – 17 Oct. 1986) On April 21, 1945, Dale Orville Miller bought from the heirs of Maurice Collins, the box factory, general store, blacksmith shop, and old mill and millrace water-rights. An entrepreneur from Birmingham, Michigan, Miller started Rochester Gear Works, located in Rochester, Michigan on Woodward Avenue. He came to Goodison to buy land and build a modern 15,000 square foot factory to relocate from Rochester and accommodate his growing business.

Miller was born in a log cabin just two miles south of Belmore, Indiana, delivered by Dr. Adrain for a fee of $5.00. (Miller’s Musing Collected Memories pg. 2). He attended Ohio State

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University, graduating in 1920 with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering. Miller entered into the oil burner business and started a company called Simplex Engineering and sold three different types of oil burners. He sold domestic burners to Edsel Ford’s in Grosse Pointe and the Booths family, yet was interested in pursuing the sale of industrial burners. He purchased a franchise from Bunting Iron Works in Berkeley, California for semi-industrial oil burners that would burn heavy #6 oil. “We installed them in Temple Beth El, a synagogue designed by Albert Kahn, the Alden Park Manor of 320 apartments, many theatres, churches and industrial buildings. It burned the cheapest #6 fuel oil.” (Miller’s Musings pg. 37).

Miller then purchased a bronze and aluminum foundry in Imlay City, Michigan called Brisk Foundry & Machine Company. He talked Mr. Charles Schneider from Toledo, Ohio, out of retirement to manage the foundry. Mr. Schneider’s many years of experience determined temperatures of the metals when poured and his expertise paid off. Miller was contacted by Fisher Body to machine bronze worms for the 90MM anti-aircraft gun for WWII. From the Rochester Gear Works brochure states “This [90MM] gun is capable of firing a total distance into the air of seven miles. These guns were usually set up in batteries of four and all aimed and fired simultaneously, smothering the plane in shrapnel. Rochester Gear Works manufactured two manganese aluminum bronze worms for the leveling mechanism for each gun, a total of over 2,200 guns. These parts were machined to a tolerance of .0001”. These worms weigh approximately 140 pounds each finished. It is estimated that a variation of .001” at the gun results in an error of the necessity of extreme accuracy on machining these parts.” Attachment.

Six months after the end of WWII, Miller made his purchase in Goodison with the old flour mill across the street. A third generation German descendant originally spelled Muller, he intended to continue his milling heritage by turning the gristmill into a cider mill. From the Rochester Era, December 6, 1945 article Rochester Gear Works Ready on Saturday, invitations were sent to celebrate the completion of new modern plant with 15,000 square feet of floor space. The article brags of the most modern and best possible construction for the comfort of production men. There was air conditioning, a modern cooling system fed by water from a large deep well. The ventilation changed air every six minutes and filtered dust and fumes for pure air at all times.

Miller had more plans for Goodison. Another vision he had was to rebuild the old mill, across the street from his factory, to provide electric lights in Goodison. Statement from Miller, “We are going to clean up the whole place, rebuild the 125-year old mill, install a modern waterwheel and a modern generator to produce electricity for lighting the streets and buildings around Goodison, using the old millrace which the early settlers dug 125-years ago.” (Rochester Era, 1945). *Note: The original gristmill was built in 1835 so it was 110 years old in 1945.

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Miller was also a collector of antiques; many of his collections are displayed in and around the current mill site. These include Silas Overpack logging wheel, showcasing Michigan’s lumber industry; a carved statue of an Indian, which is one of five statues originally located in front of Royal Oak’s Hedges Wigwam Restaurant; a large bronze bell cast in 1847 by the Meneely Foundry, West Troy, New York; and an 200 year old hand carved “screw” press with massive hand-hewn beams.

Criterion C: Property embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction or represents the work of a master, or possesses high artistic values, or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components lack individual distinction.

Giffels and Rossetti, a well-known architectural firm from Detroit, Michigan, designed the Paint Creek Cider Mill building for Dale Miller. The design elements made use of salvaged material from the Henry Ford Trade School. The structural steel framing was more industrial in design, yet also included architectural features that represented the history of the gristmill by reusing the original hand-hewn beams on the interior. The architectural firms have separated, both leading designers and both continue in existence to this day. Giffels Associates, Inc. is located in Southfield, Michigan and Rossetti Associates is located in Detroit, Michigan. The later firm was founded by L. Gino Rossetti in 1969, and is still a family owned business in 2016. L. Gino Rossetti has won national awards for his design work and the Paint Creek Cider Mill was one of the first projects as a young architect that he contributed while working under the direction of Ray Giffels.

______Narrative Description

Goodison sits within Oakland Township, part of Oakland County--one of the original counties in Michigan. The Government Land Office Survey established this as Section 28 in 1817. After Michigan gained statehood in 1837, Oakland became the township described as Town 4 North, Range 11 East in 1837 survey maps of the United States. Goodison sits in a valley alongside Paint Creek. Originally populated by Native Americans which included the Ojibwa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi, early nineteenth century maps record their settlements along Paint Creek. Numerous Native American settlements, burial sites, and artifacts throughout Oakland Township received enumeration by archaeologists from Oakland University, with 20- OK-33, a burial site, resting about one-half mile southeast of the mill. After the Detroit Treaty of

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1807 and United States victory in the War of 1812 settlers, mostly veterans of the war, received encouragement to relocate to the Northwest Territory. This influx of settlers led to the departure of many Native Americans. Area topography created two natural entrances into the valley, one from the north and another from the south. A Native American Trail paralleled Paint Creek where Orion Road and Territorial Road now run. The valley offered protection from weather and had a natural travel pattern. This setting gave settlers a sense of security, with observations of valley visitors easily made. The main attraction of the area remained Paint Creek, allowing for travel by way of canoe to the Clinton River, which flowed to Lake St. Clair and then on to the Great Lakes. It provided fresh water, food, good soil, stone, wood, wildlife, and the ability to generate power. The milling operations were important to the development of the settlement, and contribute to the agriculture heritage of Goodison.

The Paint Creek Cider Mill, having served as a place to engage in commerce, ideas, and general information throughout its use as a gristmill, continues as a community venue bringing residents together. The building is used by the following organizations: Six Rivers Land Conservancy (office), Paint Creek Trailway (office), Historic District Commission (office), Stewardship Committee (office), Safety and Trails Committee (office), and Paint Creek Cider Mill (leased tenant).

Meetings for various township subcommittees use the wheel room for meeting space, master planning, open houses, Historic District Commission programs, all Parks and Recreation subcommittees, Paint Creek Trailways, and meetings space for Safety Paths and Trails. There are many Exhibitions, located in the gallery area, which have included: Oakland Township Historical Society--“Our History Centers on the Mill;” “Edward Noble” photography; Miniature Quilt Squares by Historic District Commission; and Six Rivers Conservancy “Nature Near You” annual photography show, sale, and fundraiser. Festivals have included a native plant sale and the start/finish/check-point of the Paint Creek Trailway’s twenty-mile summer bike ride called the Paint Creek Crawl. The mill houses a bicycle repair station for Paint Creek Trail, which follows the bed of the New York Central Railroad. Seating areas outside of the building find use by walkers and bikers on the trail and those dining in the current cafe.

As the “Paint Creek Cider Mill,” the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills assigns number MI-063-009 in its registration listings.

The Paint Creek Cider Mill in Goodison remains today a central gathering place, representing a classic example of a small community with preserved history.

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______9. Major Bibliographical References

Bibliography (Cite the books, articles, and other sources used in preparing this form.)

"Aerial Maps of Oakland Township." Natural Resources Mapping Services. Accessed: 1 December, 2013. https://gis.oakgov.com/propertygateway/home.mvc.

Davis, Irma N. Modern Day Live Wire Uses Old Time Power. The Birmingham Eccentric. 13 October, 1960.

Deed Transfer Books. Oakland County Office of the Register of Deeds. Pontiac, Michigan.

Dziurman, John. John Dziurman Architects. Research documents for Goodison Historic District. Historic District Commission files. 2002.

Durant, Samuel, editor. History of Oakland County, Michigan, 1817-1877. Philadelphia. L.H. Everts. & Co. 1877. Pages 250-251.

Eastern Michigan University. Goodison Survey. Historic Preservation Program Preservation Research Techniques. Fall 1998.

Federal and patent listings, which included name of purchaser, date and property description of patented lands. State Archives. Lansing, Michigan.

First Landowners if Oakland County, Michigan. Oakland County Genealogical Society. Birmingham, Michigan. 1981.

Gear, Cider King: Key Cog in Village Core. The Pontiac Press. 16 June 1969.

Goodison Building Restoration Will Be Dining Hall, Cider Mill. The Rochester Clarion. 7 January, 1960.

Goodison History Centers on Mill. The Pontiac Press. 13 June, 1969.

Hass, Joe. 110 Year Old Mill Will Be Restored. The Pontiac Press. 12 December, 1945.

Ingenuity Harnessed to Fashion Defunct Part. The Oakland Press. 2 August, 1993.

Kaza, Greg. Invisible Goodison is an Enigma. The Oakland Press. 14 May, 1988.

Kelly, Delta and Kandarian, Barbara (eds). Heritage and Oakland Township. Oakland Township Historical Society. Rochester, Michigan. 1976. State Library. Lansing, Michigan.

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Kelly, Delta for Oakland Township Historical Society. Some History of the Goodison Settlement. October 1979.

Mancour, William (Jerry). Unpublished Personal Interview. 4 April, 2009 and 28 Nov. 2011.

Map of Native American Features in Oakland County, including settlements and earthworks. State Archives. Lansing, Michigan.

Michigan Historical Marker Application. Submitted by Janine Saputo. Oakland Township Historic District Commission office files. October 2000.

Miller Sr., Dale O. Miller Family History Memoir. Historic District Commission Office Files, Paint Creek Mill, 4480 Orion Road, Oakland Township, Michigan.

Miller, Edith Dozell Wagner and Susan Prychodko. Miller Family history. Unpublished Oral Interview by Colleen Barkham, Janine Saputo, Joann Kelly Bourez, Christina Wolf, Barbara Barber. 25 October 2011.

Noble, Edward R. The Methodist Church, the Goodison Cider Mill and the Paint Creek Cider Mill. The Oakland Press. 5 February, 1979.

Oakland Township Historical Society. A Footpath through Goodison History. February 2002.

Oakland Township Historical Society. Goodison – Timeline of the Paint Creek Mill. Oakland Township Historical Society Archives. August 2011.

Old Barn Reclaimed Wood Company. "Pecky Cypress Lumber." Accessed: 3 December 2011. http://www.reclaimedwoodco.com/page/detail/pecky-cypress-lumber_92/

Rossetti Associates. Architectural drawings; pastel. Circa 1957-58.

Silfven, Sandra. Paint Creek A Restaurant and A Whole Lot More. The Detroit News. 21 August, 1987.

Stamps, Richard B. and Richard Zurell. A Pilot Survey of Archaeological Resources of Oakland County, Michigan. Oakland University. 1980.

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Previous documentation on file (NPS):

____ preliminary determination of individual listing (36 CFR 67) has been requested ____ previously listed in the National Register ____ previously determined eligible by the National Register ____ designated a National Historic Landmark ____ recorded by Historic American Buildings Survey #______recorded by Historic American Engineering Record # ______recorded by Historic American Landscape Survey # ______

Primary location of additional data: ____ State Historic Preservation Office ____ Other State agency ____ Federal agency _X__ Local government ____ University ____ Other Name of repository: ______

Historic Resources Survey Number (if assigned): ______

______10. Geographical Data

Acreage of Property ______1.98 acres for mill site and 2.44 acres for sluice box at Gallagher and section of millrace.

Use either the UTM system or latitude/longitude coordinates

Latitude/Longitude Coordinates (decimal degrees) Datum if other than WGS84:______(Enter coordinates to 6 decimal places)

Mill Building 1. Latitude: 42.732562/42.732925 Longitude: 83.162053/83.162754 Sluice Gate 2. Latitude: 42.732991 Longitude: 83.163076 Millrace Trail to Footbridge over Millrace 3. Latitude: 42.732965/42.7324291 Longitude: 83.163134/83.164572

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Or UTM References Datum (indicated on USGS map):

NAD 1927 or NAD 1983

1. Zone: Easting: Northing:

2. Zone: Easting: Northing:

3. Zone: Easting: Northing:

4. Zone: Easting : Northing:

Verbal Boundary Description (Describe the boundaries of the property.)

The Paint Creek Cider Mill property extends northwest to southeast, along the east side of the Paint Creek bank, on Orion Road at the southern end of Collins Road, to Gallagher Road on the south side of Orion Road in Goodison. The flume/sluice box and millrace continue west of Gallagher Road between Paint Creek and Orion Road. Michigan Historic Marker L2105 (Log Number 1354) marks the location of the flume/sluice box with a “trail” extending northwest along the millrace. In township records, the parcel appears as PIN 10-28-426-009 for the Paint Creek Mill and PIN 10-28-251-003 for the flume/sluice and State Historical marker for the Paint Creek Mill Race.

Legal Description:

T4N, R11E, SEC 28 SUPERVISOR'S PLAT NO 1 LOT 37 EXC BEG AT SW LOT COR, TH ALG CURVE CONCAVE SWLY, RAD 3129.57 FT, CHORD BEARS N 39-41-27 W 223 FT, DIST OF 223.05 FT, TH S 67-27-03 E 99.49 FT, TH S 48-47-10 E 169.52 FT, TH S 74-13-10 W 80 FT TO BEG, ALSO THAT PART OF PENN-CENTRAL RAILROAD R/W BEG AT NW COR OF SD LOT 37, TH S 47-51-30 E 23.61 FT, TH ALG CURVE CONCAVE SWLY, RAD 3154.57 FT, CHORD BEARS S 45-24-23 E 269.92 FT, DIST OF 270 FT, TH N 77-13-20 W 77.90 FT, TH N 42-35-58 W 231.65 FT, TH N 52-38-35 E 29 FT TO BEG 3-22-02 FR 001 & 503-012

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Boundary Justification (Explain why the boundaries were selected.)

Physical features and political designations using area roads delineate these natural site boundaries.

Flume/sluice box located at 4400 Orion Road - 10-28-251-003 2.44 Acres

T4N, R11E, SEC 28 SUPERVISOR'S PLAT NO 1 LOT 13

______11. Form Prepared By

Name/title: Barbara Barber, Historic Preservation Planner Organization: Oakland Township Historic District Commission Street & number: 4393 Collins Road City or town: Oakland Township state: MI zip code: 48306 E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 248-608-6807 Date: January 15, 2014 (July 16, 2015) (February 23, 2016) *remove?

Also contributing to this form in preparation and research over a period of several years: Oakland Township Historical Society (Dr. Tom Asmus, Colleen Barkham, Sue Fox, William Kroger, Jeanne Phillips, Janine Saputo); Oakland Township Historic District Commission (Gene Ferrera, David A. Phillips, John Sanderson, Josiane Whitson, Judy Workings); Oakland Township Historic District Study Committee (Jan Derry, Susan Knudsen, Jean Kroger, Jean Lyons, Bruce Parkinson); Eastern Michigan University student research of Goodison Survey 1998 at direction of Dr. Ted Ligibel; Eastern Michigan University student intern Andrea Rost; John Dziurman Architects, Deborah Remer, Jan Olson, and William (Jerry) Mancour.

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______Additional Documentation Submit the following items with the completed form:

 Maps: A USGS map or equivalent (7.5 or 15 minute series) indicating the property's location.

 Sketch map for historic districts and properties having large acreage or numerous resources. Key all photographs to this map.

 Additional items: (Check with the SHPO, TPO, or FPO for any additional items.)

Attachment 1: Architectural Drawings in pastel medium with connecting bridge addition. Stamped Rossetti Associates Incorporated. Early 1970s. Attachment 2: Paint Creek Mill Etching by T. Mancour (daughter of W. Mancour) 1979. Attachment 3: Site Map with Building Dates Attachment 4: PCCM Wheel Room Construction Article Attachment 5: Miller Carbon filament light article Attachment 6: PCCM Dining Brochure Attachment 7: PCCM Architectural Drawings from Adaptive Use

Photographs Submit clear and descriptive photographs. The size of each image must be 1600x1200 pixels (minimum), 3000x2000 preferred, at 300 ppi (pixels per inch) or larger. Key all photographs to the sketch map. Each photograph must be numbered and that number must correspond to the photograph number on the photo log. For simplicity, the name of the photographer, photo date, etc. may be listed once on the photograph log and doesn’t need to be labeled on every photograph.

Photo Log

Name of Property: Paint Creek Cider Mill City or Vicinity: Charter Township of Oakland (Goodison) County: Oakland State: Michigan Photographer: Various Date Photographed: Various Description of Photograph(s) and number, include description of view indicating direction of camera: 1 of 55 photos with information.

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Photograph Reference:

1. Land Conveyance 1825 from U.S. Government to Needham Hemingway 2. Needham Hemingway photograph 3. Giffels and Rossetti Photo before Bridge Construction. General view looking slightly southeast. From Giffels and Rossetti Architects Engineers. Photographer unknown. 1960. (***Looks very much like the work of Balthazar Korab) 4. Old 1835 Gristmill with Box Flume. General view looking south. Photographer unknown. Ca. 1940s. 5. Antique Store Bailiwick Gifts Antiques. Façade facing Orion Road with SW view. Photographer unknown. Early 1960s. 6. Giffels and Rossetti Professional photo under eave with D. Miller Sr. standing on bridge. General view looking slightly south, mostly west. From Giffels and Rossetti Architects Engineers. Photographer unknown. 1960. 7. Fitz Wheel and working discharge pit. View looking due west. Photographer unknown. Date unknown. 8. Paint Creek Mill showing the Black Locust tree incorporated into the roof of cider mill building. View looking SE. Photographer unknown. November 1969 9. Paint Creek Mill front façade standing across Orion Road and looking towards SW. Paint Creek runs on the backside of the building. Photographer unknown. November 1969. 10. Paint Creek Mill with elevator addition by John Dziurman Architects, looking SE. B. Barber, Nov 2011. 11. Exterior Parking Lot side of Cider Mill building looking due west from mill parking lot. B. Barber, Nov 2011. 12. Paint Creek Mill NE façade of the Wheel Room facing Orion Road. B. Barber Nov 2011. 13. Waterwheel Detail looking west. B. Barber Nov 2011. 14. Waterwheel and wheel pit. B. Barber Nov 2011. 15. Fitz Water Wheel Company Sign Detail. B. Barber 2011. 16. Grinding Stone from original flour mill. B. Barber 2011. 17. 200 year old Cider Screw Press collection of antiques by D. Miller on display. B. Barber 2011. 18. Sluice Box and Michigan State Historical Site Marker during a site walk. View is looking due south. B. Barber May 2010. 19. Sluice Box at Gallaher Road showing Armco water control gate. Looking towards the west. B. Barber May 2010. 20. Uncovering the Turbine Chamber inside of the wheel room. B. Barber, April 2014. 21. Excavation of the Turbine chamber filled with sand. B. Barber, April 2014.

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22. Inside the Turbine Chamber where the tailrace flows into chamber. B. Barber, April 2014. 23. Edison System Bi-Polar Generator D. C. 110 Volt Generator. Located inside the wheel room. B. Barber, Nov 2011. 24. Generator Filament detail of McCord Force Feed Lubricator. B. Barber, Nov 2011. 25. Fill the Mill, Spin the Wheel Medallion in first floor entrance area near elevators. Design by J. Keyes. Painted by J. Olsen. Photo by B. Barber, 2013. 26. DUR Painting by Jim Jeffries depicting the stop in Goodison. 27. Interior entrance hallway to Connecting Bridge which is up towards the right. B. Barber, Sept 2013 28. Looking due west down the interior length of the connecting bridge. B. Barber, Sept 2013. 29. Salvaged Timber detail in first floor near elevator addition. B. Barber, Sept 2013 30. Small Conference (also called Pub) Room to the west of the cider mill. B. Barber, Sept 2013. 31. Cider Mill Restaurant area. B. Barber, Sept 2013. 32. Interior of Cider Mill looking east. B. Barber, Sept 2013. 33. Tin Ceiling inside Cider Mill. B. Barber, Sept 2013. 34. Rear Building Deck overlooking Paint Creek which runs parallel to the deck. Overhead structure for a pulled vinyl awning. B. Barber, Sept Oct 2013 35. Second Floor Office Space looking into the Historic District Commission Office. B. Barber, Sept 2013. 36. Parks and Recreation Office Space on second floor looking due west over length of the bridge. B. Barber, Sept 2013. 37. Rochester Gear Works Advertisement (Dale Miller Company), shown with products and services manufactured parts for US Army trucks. 38. Dale O. Miller Sr. standing at his factory Rochester Gear Works which he purchased with the Paint Creek Mill building, and other structures, in 1945. Photographer not known. Date c. late 1970s. 39. Rochester Gear Works Advertisement (Dale Miller Company), shown with products and services manufactured parts for US Army trucks. 40. Rochester Gear Works advertisement Precision Gear 41. Rochester Gear Works advertisement 155 MM Howitzer 42. Rochester Gear Works advertisement Heavy Duty Trucks 43. Paint Creek Market, NW of Paint Creek Mill in Goodison. Photographer unknown. Date unknown.

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44. Cider Making Operations inside the Paint Creek Mill. Photographer unknown. Date unknown c. late 1970s. 45. Apple Pressing for cider inside the Paint Creek Mill. Photographer unknown. Date unknown c. late 1970s. 46. Paint Creek Mill crowds ordering cider and donuts with the Mancour girls. Photographer unknown. Date unknown ca. late 1970s. 47. Crowds gathering outside to purchase cider and donuts. Photographer unknown. Date unknown c. late 1970s. 48. Dale O. Miller at doorway entrance to Rochester Gear Works. Photographer not known. Date c. late 1970s. 49. Dale O. Miller sitting at desk working. Photographer not known. Date c. late 1970s. 50. Dale O. Miller at Rochester Gear Works. Photographer not known. Date c. late 1970s. 51. Concept Drawing of restoration of the original Hemingway gristmill by Giffels & Valllet, and L. Rossetti. 52. 1963 BW Aerial Map Property Gateway, https://gis.oakgov.com/propertygateway/home.mvc 53. Goodison ca. 1940s. Long view facing north. Photo from Doris Barkham Collection. 54. 1940 BW Aerial Map from Property Gateway, https://gis.oakgov.com/propertygateway/home.mvc 55. Paint Creek Mill view from Collins Road looking towards the SW. Photographer J. Saputo. Date March 2011.

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