Custom Home Builder in Brooklyn, Michigan
Building in the Irish Hills
Brooklyn sits in the middle of the Irish Hills, and building here is not like building on a flat lot in town. Columbia Township land rolls, lots run down to Clark Lake, Wamplers Lake, Vineyard Lake and Lake Columbia, and plenty of the older houses started life as summer cottages.
Strouss Construction has built in Jackson County since 1949 and is run by the fourth generation of the family. Add race weekends at Michigan International Speedway and US-12 traffic to the calendar, and local scheduling knowledge earns its keep.
Where We Build Around Brooklyn
Cottages on the Lakes
The lakes carry cottages from the forties, fifties and sixties that people have kept adding onto. Many sit on narrow frontage with the water on one side and the road on the other, so a rebuild or a second story usually makes more sense than pushing out, and there is very little room to stage material or park equipment. In the village, older homes on small platted lots near Main Street ask for additions that work around tight side yards.
Acreage in the Hills
Outside the village it is acreage in Columbia, Norvell and Liberty townships and down toward Somerset and Cement City, where the ground is glacial and hilly. That is where the barndominiums, pole barns and shops go up, and where a walkout basement is often the natural answer to a sloping lot. Rural sites mean well and septic instead of village water and sewer, and septic placement near a lake takes planning.
What We Build in Brooklyn
New Homes & Barndominiums
We build custom homes and barndominiums from the ground up, on your land, with our own crew doing the work.
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Additions & Remodeling
More room, a better layout, or an older part of the house brought up to date, handled by the same crew start to finish.
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Garages & Barns
Detached garages, pole barns and workshops, sized to the site and what you actually need to put in them.
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Commercial Construction
We build solid, reliable commercial spaces with the same honesty and craftsmanship we would put into our own.
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Carol Thompson
The Strouss family was excellent to work with. The quality of work was excellent. We did a complete remodel of our cottage and their attention to detail is evident in the finished product. Strouss Builders have been doing this a long time and have all things covered.
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Roy Southerland
Strouss Construction did excellent work on the exterior of our home. They work great as a team, were here every day and made our project a priority. Dan Jr. and Aaron did exceptional work and communicated the whole way. I would recommend the Strouss team.
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Mike & Laura Rogers
Strouss Construction built us a beautiful custom home that we have been in for two years now. The quality of work, attention to detail, and commitment to our needs have been fantastic. Dan Strouss and his team were an absolute joy to work with.
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