Priscilla Calkins Prior House

Frederic and Priscilla Prior, originally from Massachusetts, were among Milford Township's earliest settlers, arriving in Michigan in 1835 with four of their seven children and settling near Sears Lake. Their house, built around 1841 soon after Frederic's death in 1840, stood on what was originally a forty-acre farm. After Frederic died, Priscilla married Charles Colton of New York and continued to live in the house following his death in 1853. Owned by Prior family descendants until 1936, the house was associated with one of Milford's most prominent pioneer families and exemplifies Greek Revival residential architecture while mimicking the New England saltbox form familiar to the family from Massachusetts.

Michigan · United States