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Historic Sawyer Homestead Building is the home of Dr. Alfred I. Sawyer and his family. Completed in 1879, the home and the site on which it stands are reminders of many elements in Michigan's past.
The Sawyer House, also known as the Sawyer Homestead and in its previous incarnation as the Navarre House, is a city-owned house located at 320 East Front Street in Monroe, Michigan. It was listed as a Michigan Historic Site on June 19, 1975.
The Sawyer Homestead. 785 likes · 8 talking about this. To promote, maintain and support the historical, cultural, educational, social and civic community in the Homestead located in the City of Monroe.
The Sawyer Homestead has had a place in the everyday life of Monroe since the City’s beginnings. It is the site of the home of the first white settler in Monroe, Francois Navarre. His farm was acquired from the Potowatomi Indians in 1785 and served as a center for the River Raisin settlement.
Mar 5, 2020 · This grand old house is a few blocks from downtown Monroe. It was built in 1873 by Dr. Sawyer. His daughter Jenny Toll Sawyer lived in the house and then donated it to the city of Monroe in 1938 which it still owns today.
Sawyer, who secured the establishment of the homeopathy department at the University of Michigan, served as mayor of Monroe in 1869–1870 and in 1878. Bracketed eaves, corbeled chimneys, an unusual round-arched central wall dormer, corner quoins, and cresting enliven the two-and-a-half-story house.
May 2, 2013 · The house is named after one of its residents, Dr. Alfred Sawyer, who lived there from 1859-1870. The original house was demolished and a new one built in 1873. Dr. Sawyer never lived in the current house, but it remained in his family until his daughter donated it to the city of Monroe in 1973.
