1883 Spencer Hospitality

There have been other posts regarding the Spencer House, also known as the Spencer Exchange when it was first built, but I thought a couple more items of interest should be added from an 1883 issue of The Fowlerville Review. The Spencer House was located at the northeast corner of North Second Street and East Grand River.W.H. Spencer is placing a pool and two billiard tables in his hotel. And,

The boarders at the Spencer House, as in token of the high esteem in which they are held by the landlord, Mrs. Wm. H. Spencer, received Monday evening each a china cup and saucer. They retaliated by presenting her with a beautiful pair of bracelets.

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And since we are reading about the Spencer House, this is a gentle reminder that the squint shots for this last week and for a few more days are of the house that replaced the above building in the late 1910s. But of additional interest in the above picture, the house that can be seen at the far right of the picture was built sometime after the Civil War, from all information obtained. It has been recently updated and remodeled and now houses the State Farm Insurance business.