| Mr. Dziurman stated he found and spoke with Sara Johnson, the grandaughter |
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| of Wayne Eddy, who purchased the property in the 1930's. She offered that Mr. |
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| Eddy was the chief lead engineer for Pontiac Motors and that the family received |
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| the first Pontiac car off the assembly line. Immediately after purchasing the |
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| farm, Mr. Eddy extensively renovated the existing house. John Burns, the |
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| architect who designed the renovations, proportedly designed the home at 1812 |
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| Rochester and a lot of homes in Romeo. The original farm had a tenant house, |
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| a number of barns and covered the area to John R Road on the east. Mr. Eddy |
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| was imprisoned for non-payment of taxes for a short time around 1946. |
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| Newspaper articles should be reviewed for this information. Mr. Eddy started |
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| Allen Cooling & Ventilating Co. in Rochester on Woodward, across from Dillman |
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| & Upton. After he died, Mrs. Eddy ran the company for years and then sold it to |
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| Solaronics. Ms. Johnson has a cousin that lives in Eddington Farms. Older plat |
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| maps listed the property as Fairview Farm. Mr. Dziurman commented that Mr. |
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| Rod Wilson sent him photographs of the farm and buildings, as well as the |
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| inter-urban electric street car that had a stop in front of the house. Mr. |
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| Dziurman feels additional research is required relative to this property, |
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| especially the imprisonment situation, the Allen Cooling & Ventilating Co., and |
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| checking General Motors records to see if there is a connection. He feels |
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| another couple of weeks is necessary to gather this information. |
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| Dr. Stamps commented the preliminary report states that "the Study Committee |
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| finds the house at 1585 S. Rochester Road should no longer be designated as a |
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| local historic district. The original Study Committee did not have the benefit of |
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| the complete history of the property." Dr. Stamps feels that they probably did |
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| have an awareness of the history, but they didn't write it all down. They knew |
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| that the house was significant. As such, Dr. Stamps disagrees with that |
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| statement in the preliminary report, and feels it should be changed. Dr. Stamps |
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| feels the house does possess the historic and architectural integrity needed for |
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| it to be considered signifant for its architecture. The State Historic Preservation |
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| Office comments disagreed with our draft preliminary finding. The Committee |
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| needs to pull the additional information into the report and reassess the findings |
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| and conclusions. Every effort should be made to preserve and save this |
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| resource, recognizing it for its importance to our history and architecture. |
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