Duplex or "double house" in Foster City

Duplex or “Double House,” Foster City, Dickinson County, Michigan, ca. 1900: The Morgan Lumber & Cedar Company owned this duplex or “double house” which stood on the hill in Foster City between the Walter Filback and the Olaf Olson homes. When this photograph was taken at the turn of the century the John Johnsons rented the left side and the John Olsons rented the right. Among those positively identified are Edith Johnson, John Johnson, Mina Johnson (holding Carl O.E. Johnson, who was born in 1899), Theodore Johnson, Jennie Olson, Nels Olson, Larson and Magnus Olson. Note the logs to the right and the ridge which has already been logged off. [Beatrice Blomquist]