Edward R. Blair House, 221 Center Street (c. 1903)

Edward R. Blair House, February 1992. Photo by Kevin S. Forsyth.

Edward R. Blair (1851–1936) was Foreman of the College Farms from 1899 to 1905. He was the first Supervisor of the city of East Lansing when it was incorporated in 1907.

After World War Two, this was the home of brothers Edward G. Hertel Jr (M.A.C. ’39) and Crawford W. Hertel (M.S.C. ’40), who founded the Builders Hardware company in 1946.1

  1.  LCD, 1946, p. 312. ↩︎

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