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A plat is a building that exists first on paper — and Lakeville's additions stand in the record at exactly that stage.Coquillard's Addition, platted 18 August 1857 by Alexis T., Alexis, and Frances C. Coquillard — the founder's family's paper town, two years after the founder's death; the original plat, Lots A–F, recorded 23 December 1859; and the later additions in their makers' names — John Henderson's, Michael Hupp's, Stephen A. Ulery's, Sarah E. Rush's — undated in the reached record. Read as architecture, the sequence is the town's true growth chart: a trader's addition, a town plat, then settler additions accreting along the Michigan Road — the built town followed the paper one lot by lot. What the paper cannot give, and this article does not invent: house counts per addition, build-out dates, or a design character for any addition's housing. That residue stands named — settlers, the recorded plats read with the county parcel record, which dates structures as the plat record never can.
Principal sources: the banked Neighborhoods lk-nbhd-plat (the plat sequence whole).