Church, Zalmon, House

This elegant brick residence is one of two Italianate homes of very high design quality located within the Multiple Resource area. The building is nicely maintained and features ornamental lintels and sills around the rectangular fenestration, and paired wooden brackets below the overhanging eaves. One of the older surviving buildings in Saline, the residence represents the first wave of residential construction extending north from the four-corners. The building has been spared the intrusive exterior alterations often found on buildings of the period, although there has been interior alteration, including the 1913 addition of a dropped ceiling in the parlor and the removal of a fireplace and chimney. Original owner Zalmon Church was a street commissioner in 1869 and also served in some other Village posts. After his death in 1880, the estate went to his daughter, Mary Church Eaton, wife of lawyer Peter M. Eaton, another prominent resident of early Saline.

Located on part of Orange Risdon's original plat, this Italianate painted brick building sits on the southwest corner of N. Ann Arbor and McKay Streets. The building's landscaped lawn and exterior appearance suggest its original residential use, although the south one-story wing, extended in 1946, now serves as office space. The two-story hipped roof cube with a one-story gabled wing features the paired eaves line brackets and segmental-arched lintels typical of the Italianate style; an off-center porch on the main building (1950); and a small portico-like entrance to the side wing. Although of more recent construction, the porches are compatible in size and scale and do not affect the building's architectural integrity.