Overview of Historic Monument & Dougherty Mission House ~ Traverse City, Michigan
Dougherty Mission House-Facing Southwest
Here Rev. Peter Dougherty and his wife, Maria Higgins, conducted their Indian mission.
Built in 1842, the first frame house in the Grand Traverse region.
The Dougherty Mission House is a two-story symmetrical frame structure on a fieldstone foundation with a side-gable roof and centered front gable. The sides are clad with clapboard siding and the roof with cedar shingles. There are attached porches on three sides of the house, and a kitchen addition at the rear that was likely added in the late 19th century. The front facade has a full-width porch with a center entrance. Four windows line the first floor around the entrance, placed nearly regularly, save for one offset window. The second floor has a center sash window located in the gable, flanked by two smaller eyebrow windows.
One side of the house has six windows in the main section: three on the first floor, two on the second, and one in the attic.[5] The other side lacks the attic window. There are additional windows in the rear and in the kitchen addition.
The interior of the house contains 1160 square feet of space on each floor, plus an additional 370 square feet in the kitchen addition. The first floor contains eight rooms: a front entryway, parlor, and master bedroom, plus a second bedroom, two smaller rooms, a small bathroom, and the kitchen in the rear. A stairway leads to the second floor, where six bedrooms open off a central hall.
Also on the grounds are an original detached kitchen, an outhouse, and an ice house. The nearby replica mission church is a single-room front-gable log building.
Overview of Historic Monument & Dougherty Mission House ~ Traverse City, Michigan
Dougherty Mission House-Facing Southwest
Here Rev. Peter Dougherty and his wife, Maria Higgins, conducted their Indian mission.
Built in 1842, the first frame house in the Grand Traverse region.
The Dougherty Mission House is a two-story symmetrical frame structure on a fieldstone foundation with a side-gable roof and centered front gable. The sides are clad with clapboard siding and the roof with cedar shingles. There are attached porches on three sides of the house, and a kitchen addition at the rear that was likely added in the late 19th century. The front facade has a full-width porch with a center entrance. Four windows line the first floor around the entrance, placed nearly regularly, save for one offset window. The second floor has a center sash window located in the gable, flanked by two smaller eyebrow windows.
One side of the house has six windows in the main section: three on the first floor, two on the second, and one in the attic.[5] The other side lacks the attic window. There are additional windows in the rear and in the kitchen addition.
The interior of the house contains 1160 square feet of space on each floor, plus an additional 370 square feet in the kitchen addition. The first floor contains eight rooms: a front entryway, parlor, and master bedroom, plus a second bedroom, two smaller rooms, a small bathroom, and the kitchen in the rear. A stairway leads to the second floor, where six bedrooms open off a central hall.
Also on the grounds are an original detached kitchen, an outhouse, and an ice house. The nearby replica mission church is a single-room front-gable log building.