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The oldest house-claim on this ground is a settler cabin that stands — where it was moved to; the second-oldest house is named nowhere. The first limb stands banked and is stated at its strength: the Hardy Manuel / Huggart cabin, a mid-nineteenth-century settler dwelling of the Huggart Settlement's ground, stands today but was moved — a 1996 investigation at its site found no mid-nineteenth-century artefacts, consistent with a building re-sited rather than in situ (the neighborhoods file's record). It is the township's oldest claimed dwelling and its claim is expressly a moved-building claim. The second limb fails at every reached carrier: no survey, atlas, nomination, or local-history carrier reached names a second-oldest Lakeville house — not the atlas-era farmhouses of the patron maps (owners named, houses undated), not the Michigan Street frontage (whose survey is itself the open gap G-LK7-22A). The row closes mixed: one limb dug, one standing as residue — settlers, the SHAARD database and county survey rows for Union Township, and the parcel record, either of which could date the frontage houses the atlas only names.
Principal sources: the banked Neighborhoods (the cabin and its 1996 investigation) and this history lk-rem-architecture (G-LK7-22A); the 1875 atlas patron record as carried in Neighborhoods.