This is a long-shot, but if I had seen this house in a small town in the poorer areas of southwestern Michigan, I would guess it to be a possible log cabin, covered over with layers of wood and siding. The proportions, especially the cramped attic height, fit those of simple log cabins. However, how would it have ended up on Marlborough St? I have a 1917 Detroit City Street directory which shows Marlborough plotted and existing up to Mack, but I doubt that the street is much older than that. Could the house have been moved to this site after the former farm fields were platted into subdivisions?