Victorian Springtime IV Series "The Halstead House" 1870: Coldwater, Michigan. Lorenzo Halstead, a New Yorker, built this eclectic Italianate in the 1870's. Halstead came to Coldwater and set up a sewing business, as well as a business of building homes for sale. In the 1980's, two antique dealers found this wonderful home painted in a drab yellow. Eight months and $8000 later, they had restored the cupola and repainted. During the restoration they were very careful not to disturb the friendly ghosts of two children who sit at the top of the maid's staircase.