The History of Genesee, MI, Chapter 29, Flint City Plats, Additions & Sub-Divisions

The History of Genesee County, MI
Chapter XXIX
Flint City Plats, Additions & Sub-Divisions

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FLINT CITY PLATS, ADDITIONS AND SUB-DIVISIONS.

There Were several plats of the village of Flint River filed in the office of the register of deeds. The first one was filed by A. e. Wathares in 1830. He called it a plat of the village of Sidney. The territory embraced in this plat covered four blocks--from Saginaw Street to Clifford, east and west, and from the river to First Street, north and south. This was followed by a re-survey in 1833 and the name of Flint river was substituted for Sidney. The new plat covered the territory embraced in the Sidney plat and extended to the present Fourth Street and on the east to Harrison Street. In 1836 this village plat was extended to East Street and included thirty-two blocks.

The village of Grand Traverse was platted on the north side of the river in 1837 and the plat was filed on January 16 of the year. It extended from the river to Seventh Avenue, north, and from Smith's Island--St. John's Street--to West Street, now known as Stone Street. This was platted by Chauncey S. Payne.

The village of Flint was platted by Wait Beach, July 13, 1836. It extended from the river to Eleventh Street, south, and from Saginaw Street to Church--all being west of the Saginaw Turnpike, now Saginaw Street.

Elisha Beach filed a plat on September 22, 1836, extending the limits of Flint village to Pine Streets, adding twenty blocks and on February 28, 1837, Gen. C. C., Hascall, platted an addition to the village, east of Saginaw Street to Clifford and from Court Street south to Eleventh--sixteen block. But while all these plats showed villages, there really never was an incorporated village of Sidney, Flint River Grand Traverse or Flint. There was always a township organization and then a city.

Up to 1900 there were over sixty "additions" to the territory originally embraced in the limits of the city of Flint. These additions vary in size from a few lots to nearly fifty blocks. Among the most important may be mentioned: McFarland & Company's Western Addition, forty-nine blocks; Thayer & Eddy's sixteen blocks; Stockton's eleven blocks; Fenton & Bishop's, fourteen blocks; West Flint, twelve blocks, and Oak Park addition, embracing thirty-four blocks. When the present site of the water works was selected, that location still remained in the township of Burton, but it was subsequently added to the city.

The following plats have been filed in the office of the register of deeds of Genesee county, Michigan, beginnings with the year, 1900, to July 1916, a total of twenty-two thousand two hundred and five lots, to which may be added several plats laid out during the latter part of 1916 and bringing the number of lots platted in six years to nearly twenty-five thousand

ASSESSED VALUATION, TAX RATE AND AMOUNT RAISED FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS
Rate, per $1,000 Valuation	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915
Total Summer	$11.50	$12.75	$11.96	$12.20	$11.80
Total Winter	10.03	6.95	9.30	7.88	8.95
Total	21.53	19.70	21.26	20.08	20.75
City Summer	8.00	8.25	8.54	7.70	7.42
City Winter	1.85	1.28	1.89	1.25	1.25
*City Total	9.85	9.53	10.43	8.95	8.67
School Summer	3.50	4.50	3.42	4.50	4.38
School Winter	1.55	1.47	1.73	1.70	1.80
*School Total	5.05	5.97	5.15	6.20	6.18
County	2.30	1.50	1.65	1.50	1.50
County Road	1.00	.80	1.00	1.50	1.50
*County Total	3.30	2.30	2.65	3.00	3.00
*State Total	3.33	1.90	3.03	1.93	2.90
School, State, County and County Road	11.68	10.17	1.83	11.13	112.08
Total	21.53	19.70	21.26	20.08	20.75
Assessed Valuation	$23,555,106.00	$24,569,228.00	$33,902,697.00	$35,267,451.00	$37,166,190.00
Amount Raised
City	232,017.83	246,404.54	351,755.20	315,660.44	326,476.83
School	118,953.30	160,698.53	173,869.19	218,646.05	229,703,64
County	54,248.54	51,750.20	56,204.02	53,079.18	55,749.58
County Road	23,555.10	27,341.74	33,902.69	52,897.14	55,749.58
State	78,300.46	64,638.00	102,488.45	67,631,77	107,119.10
Total	$507,075.23	$550,833.41	$718,219.55	$707,968.55	$774,898.73

NAME OF PLAT	# of Lots	Name of Plat	# of Lots
Adelaide	60	Homedale Subdivision	581
Arlington Place	185	Lucy-Mason-Howard Plat	155
Beachdale	177	Kearsley Park Subdivision	200
Becker Heights Addition	41	Kirby's Addition	27
Bickford Park	60	Knob Hill	26
Bishop's Re-Plat	8	George LaDue's Addition	37
Buick Heights	91	Liberty Street Extension	22
Buick Park	262	Maplewood	305
Burr's Addition	24	Bang's Re-Plat	33
Collingwood	228	A. McFarlan's Re-Plat	51
Columbia Heights	266	Maines' Re-Plat	13
Courtdale	97	Wright's Re-Plat	18
Dewey homestead addition	289	Veit's Re-Plat	60
J. D. Dort's Addition	20	McLaughlin's addition	38
Eastern Addition to Homedale	540	Maines' Flint Crest	120
Edgewood Plat	34	Maplewood Annex	305
Elk Park Subdivision	42	Motor Heights	130
Elm Park Subdivision	412	Motor Heights Second Subdivision	288
Fairfield Subdivision	149	Motor heights third Subdivision	124
Fairmont Addition	205	Murray Hill	121
Fairview	255	Murray Hill No. 2	176
Flanders & Houran's Subdivision	91	Re-Plat of Reserve & Lot 95 of Murray Hill	5
Floral Park	110
Franklin Park	242	North Addition to Fairview	128
Fenton heights (Supervisor's Plat)	31	Oakland	110
Gilkey Ridge	126	Oak Park Subdivision	638
Gilkey Ridge No. 2	122	Durant-Dort Carriage Co., Re-Plat	98
Gillespie & Van Wagoner's Subdivision	103	Parkland	346
Garner's Re-Plat	8	Parkland No. 2	398
Grant heights	401	Park Heights Addition	298
Hamilton Homestead Addition	23	Parkview	47
Loyal Guard Square Re-Plat	21	Pasadena	789
Woolfit & Macomber Re-Plat	15	Pomeroy-Bonbright Addition	530
Hillcrest	793	Pomeroy-Bonbright Second Addition	172
Pomeroy-Bonbright Third Addition	597	General Motors' Park	545
Rice's Addition	11	Miner's Subdivision	54
River Addition to Fairview	337	Brookfield Addition	23
Riverside	186	Vineland No. 1	19
South Park	128	Fenton Park Addition	92
Piper's Re-Plat	29	Suburban Gardens	828
Stevenson's Plat	36	Fenton Street Subdivision	359
Stewart's Plat	138	Indian village	422
Stewart's Plat No. 2	335	Metawaneenee Hills No. 1	141
Stone-Macdonald Addition	355	Mason Manor	284
Stone-Macdonald-Kaufman Addition	473	Lincoln Park Subdivision	454
Taylor's Addition	16	Maplewood Annex No. 1	450
Third Avenue Terrace Addition	144	Plat of Bellaire	135
VanTifflin Place	14	Mason Manor No. 1	152
Vineland	113	Virginia Place Subdivision	324
Windiate-Pierce Subdivision	213	Woodcroft Subdivision	130
E. O. Wood's Plat	53	Clarkdale Subdivision	140
Woodlawn Plat	393	Nickels Park Subdivision	176
Woodward Plat	26	Mannhall Park	197
Highland Park Subdivision	61	Atherton Park Subdivision	591
Kummer's Addition	37	.	.
Cloverdale No. 2	512	.	.
Boulevard Heights Subdivision	591	.	.
.	.	Total number of lots	22,205

Flint's are in 1916 is seven thousand and forty acres. It is a city of homes. Many of its workingmen either own their homes or are buying them on the contract plan. The greatest problem of Great Flint has been to supply the unusual demand for houses. There are fifteen hundred factory employees who live in Saginaw, thirty miles away, and twelve hundred who live in Bay City, forty miles away, and there are also three hundred and four hundred who live in the more accessible villages of Clio and Mt. Morris. The crying need is for five thousand more homes. Capitalists are bending their energies to supply this demand so that the industrial progress of Flint may not be stayed. The Civic Building Association, organized with a paid-up capital of two hundred thousand dollars in 1916, is trying to alleviate the situation. It has planned the completion of five hundred moderate priced homes for workingmen by the close of 1916. There were at the beginning of the year 1916, twelve thousand five hundred residence buildings in the city. with the plans for the construction of many new houses and the completion of those under way there are prospects of from fifteen thousand to sixteen thousand homes in the city by January, 1917.

Building permits for the first half of 1916 passed the total of 1915, when thirteen hundred and two permits for new construction work and three hundred and thirty-nine for repair work were issued from the city clerk's office from January 1 to July 1. The value of buildings for which permits were granted during this period was approximately two million five hundred thousand, or nearly one million dollars ahead of the total amount for the year 1915.

The record in the city clerk's off ice shows that building permits for structures to cost one hundred dollars or more during the past five years have been issued as follows:
1912	181
1913	290
1914	416
1915	1,398
1916 to July 1	1,302

Of the thirteen hundred and ninety-right permits in 1915, twelve hundred and four were for houses, twenty-four for flats, twenty for stores with flats, eighty-eight for barns and garages, and the remainder for business buildings.

History of Genesee County, Michigan, Her People, Industries and Institutions
by Edwin O. Wood, LL.D, President Michigan Historical Commission, 1916