Theron Murray House

In 1831, Oakland County pioneers Theron and Rebecca Murray purchased eighty acres of land from the U. S. government including this site. This Greek Revival house and barn, constructed around 1835, were built of hand-hewn beams with wooden pegs. From 1942 to 1958, Charles W. Malpass owned the house as well as a parcel directly across Halstead Road. That forty-acre pasture served as a landing strip for private planes. Malpass allegedly named the house "Upson Downs."