Custom Home Builder in Hillsdale, Michigan
College Town Blocks and County Acreage
Hillsdale sits about forty minutes south of Jackson down M-99, so getting a crew and material here is routine for us. Strouss Construction has been family owned since 1949 and the fourth generation runs it now.
In town, around the college and the older streets near downtown, you are working next to homes built in the 1800s on tight lots with mature trees and city water and sewer. Lots on Baw Beese Lake add narrow frontage and a slope down to the water. Out in the townships you get room, a well, a septic field and a long driveway.
Where We Build Around Hillsdale
Nineteenth Century Housing Stock
The older part of Hillsdale is full of tall farmhouse styles, Queen Annes and small Greek Revivals, many with balloon framing, plaster over lath and a block or fieldstone basement. Additions there are mostly a roofline and foundation problem. You are tying new framing into old framing that is not level, and matching a porch or a window pattern so the front of the house still reads right from the street.
Post Frame Country
Outside the city the county rolls into farm ground and glacial hills with parcels measured in acres. Post frame homes and barndominiums make sense out there because you have the setbacks and road frontage for them, and people want the shop attached. Pole barns for equipment, second garages and machine sheds are steady work in Cambria, Scipio, Adams and Wheatland townships. Footings go below frost, which here means around forty two inches down, and soils run from sandy loam to heavy clay.
What We Build in Hillsdale
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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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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Dianne Stanley
The Strouss family has done an amazing job for my family. Our pole barn is beautiful and they put it up quickly. You cannot go wrong hiring them. They are dependable and trustworthy.
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A. O.
Thank you to the wonderful team at Strouss Construction. Your dedication to beautiful work and attention to detail certainly shows in my home. Thank you for going above and beyond my expectations. I highly recommend Strouss Construction!
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