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Building, Oakland Township

Axford-Coffin Farm

Still standing, photographed 2011

Axford-Coffin Farm Oakland County MI, 2011 Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Style
Greek Revival

Axford-Coffin Farm has stood on W. Predmore Rd. in Oakland Township. Who built it, what makes it special and how to see it for yourself.

What is there now

Standing

We checked building permits, sales, listings and the city's blight and demolition files on October 24, 2026. Nothing new at this address in the last two years.

The story

Axford-Coffin Farm is one of the places that gives Oakland Township its character.

It was built in the Greek Revival style, and it still reads that way from the sidewalk.

The National Register of Historic Places listed it in 2002.

Go see it at 384-388 W. Predmore Rd. Photos never get the scale right.

The Axford-Coffin Farm, also known as Cranberry Lake Farm, is a farmstead located at 384-388 West Predmore Road in Oakland Charter Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Where it is

384-388 W. Predmore Rd., Oakland Township

On this map

  1. Axford-Coffin Farm This place

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Photo credits

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  1. Axford-Coffin Farm Oakland County MI, 2011 Photo: Andrew Jameson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sources

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