99 W 11th

Street Address:
99 W. 11^th Street
Date of Construction:
1916 (approx.)
Historic Name:
Lokker Home
Common Name:
Hope Church Parsonage or Brooks Home
This colonial style revival home is constructed of brick and has a hipped roof of tile. The two story home features an enclosed front porch, two oriel windows in the front of the second floor, a wide overhang with exposed rafter ends and hipped dormers, and a third floor ballroom. This very symmetrical home is largely unchanged from its original design. Floral etchings in a leaded glass window on the east side of the home are unusual. The interior woodwork is mahogany and may have come from the Bush and Lane Piano Company. This home is very similar to the one at 161 W. 12^th Street.
This property was sold in 1884 by John Vaupell to H.P. McBride who had built a home on the lot east if this one. In 1916 McBride sold the property to Christain J. Lokker, who was manager of C.J. Lokker & Company, and proprietor of the Holland Crystal Creamery. Later he was the president of Lokker-Rutgers Company, vice-president of the Holland Canning Company and Home Furnace Company and treasurer of Standard Grocer Milling Company. In 1942 the home was purchased by Ruth Fitch Brooks of Brooks Products. It later became the parsonage for Hope Reformed Church. Wayne and Marion Woodby purchased the home from the church in 1973.