William Ray Perry House
In 1894 William Ray Perry built this house on the farm that was purchased by his father in 1829. The Queen Anne house displays Eastlake ornamentation. Perry’s forbearers had arrived in New England in 1650. In 1825 Edmund Perry, William’s great-uncle, moved his immediate family from Rhode Island to the Grand Blanc area; other family members followed. The Perrys were the township’s second pioneer family, and this vicinity became popularly known as the “Perry Settlement
site number: L1680B
era: Industry and Invention (1875-1915)
year listed: 1989
year erected: 1990
