It was the residence and early (until 1892) dental office of Dr. John Andrews Watling, co—founder of the School of Dentistry at the University of Michigan. Mrs. Watling was prominent in civic affairs, having founded the Ladies Library in 1889, the Ladies Literary Club and the local chapter of the D.A.R. An outstanding example of its style, the house features a front gable with hipped hoods over the first floor streetside windows, an ornamented side yard bay window, pendant cones on paired brackets, and sandblasted floral patterned glass lights in paired front doors. A casket door, adjacent to the tower, with its own protecting porch, and iron tower cresting have long since been removed. Rich parquet patterns in walnut, oak and butternut adorned floors in principle first floor spaces. A circular stair in the tower unites floors from the main entry to the lookout chamber at the top.
 

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