I was recently perusing the Belon Real Estate Collection, as is my wont, and came across something serendipitously. The Collection is part of the Capital Area District Library’s local history collection and has been fully digitized. It consists of a set of cards used by the Belon Real Estate Agency with information on properties for sale (whether listed with them or not) from the early 1950s through early 1970s.

While poring over old records for Charles Street, one of the streets in Lansing Township south of Michigan Avenue and west of US-127, I happened to see a photo of a garage with a sign reading “J.R. DeHoney, cement contractor.” DeHoney has been represented in this blog by a very small handful of hard-to-read stamps. The Belon card shows his business located at 234 S. Charles St. The owner is given as J.R. DeHoney and wife, and it appears that he listed the building for $18,500 in 1964 but it did not sell. The card notes, “South wall to be common wall with building to be built on next lot south.”

Today the building is still recognizable, and indeed it was added to on the south side. Together the buildings now comprise Longwood Automotive Repair and have the street address 238 S. Charles.