Maple Grove is one of about fifty octagon buildings in Michigan. Harry Frink (1809-89), a farmer and master carpenter from New York State built this house around 1850. The house’s octagonal plan reflects a national craze following the 1848 . . . — — Map (db m179814) HM
Pontiac was one of Michigan's first cities to develop outside of Detroit however fire consumed much of its core in 1840. The downtown was rebuilt and made more permanent with use of brick and limestone. The richness of building styles that . . . — — Map (db m174257) HM
This stone column is all that remains of the 27 acre estate of Charles Chapman. The home, designed in 1898 by world famous architect Albert Kahn was one of only a few designed by Mr. Kahn.
[Caption:]
Chapman's Residence, . . . — — Map (db m180257) HM
New York native George Vandeventer, who came to Avon Township as a child in 1834, became a successful businessman and civic leader in Rochester. When their home burned in 1875, George and his wife, Julia, built this Italianate-inspired house. The . . . — — Map (db m118769) HM
The "Old Stone Store" is the oldest commercial building in Rochester. Dr. Rollin Sprague of New York had the structure built in 1849 of coursed cobblestone, using a construction method more commonly used in his home state. The Sprague Building is . . . — — Map (db m118678) HM
Needham Hemingway built the first mill at this site in 1835, harnessing water power from the Paint Creek millrace. William Goodison purchased the gristmill in 1866. The surrounding community took his name and became a railroad stop in 1872. The . . . — — Map (db m142167) HM
The History of Goodison - It All Started with the Mill
The Paint Creek Cider Mill's history shares a story of settlement, spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Always the economic and social hub of Goodison, the buildings on this . . . — — Map (db m145403) HM
This site possesses national significance as an exceptional example of the American Country Estate movement of the early Twentieth Century. The centerpiece, a monumental 110-room residence, is the largest and most impressive example of Tudor . . . — — Map (db m100374) HM
In the late nineteenth century, the community of South Lyon was served by three rail lines operating from the 1871 Pere Marquette depot, which burned in 1908. By the time this one-story Queen Anne depot was erected by the Grand Trunk Western . . . — — Map (db m150858) HM
In 1831 fifteen people formed a Presbyterian society in South Lyon, then called "The Corners." These early settlers worshipped in homes and a schoolhouse. The society organized the First Presbyterian Church in 1858 and erected a frame structure the . . . — — Map (db m150822) HM
Much of what is now Highland Recreation Area, was once the country estate
of auto magnate Edsel Ford. Looking for a nerve retreat," Edsel developed
an elaborate country estate throughout the Haven Hill and Teeple Lake Area
The area included a . . . — — Map (db m226161) HM
This depot and substation served the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven & Muskegon Railway, an electric interurban railroad that operated from 1902 to 1928. A third rail in the country and an overhead wire in cities supplied the train’s power. Frequent runs . . . — — Map (db m154390) HM
Ottawa County's courthouse has been in Grand Haven since 1836, in a series of buildings. The first courthouse shared a one-room building, built on Second Street in 1836, with a school and church. The first true county courthouse was built in 1857; . . . — — Map (db m153585) HM
This Victorian Romanesque building
was designed and constructed by
James Huntley in 1898. It was originally
the site of the Van der Veen
clothing store and later Hansen Drug Store,
which occupied the building for almost
40 years. Faced with . . . — — Map (db m246684) HM
Constructed around 1875, this building
was the home of Van Putten's Book Store
as early as 1885. Lambertus Fris
purchased the property and renamed
the business The L. Fris Book Store
in 1900. A blend of several architectural
periods, the . . . — — Map (db m246686) HM
Constructed in 1892 by Ernest Herold
and Dr. Henry Kremers to accommodate the
Central Drug Store, this building has since
been the site of a wide variety of retail
businesses. The decorative oriel windows
and elaborate detailing evident in . . . — — Map (db m246679) HM
This property, purchased between 1895
and 1897, was the site of the Van Drezer
Restaurant and Hotel. The existing facade
was applied in the 1920s and is typical
of an American architectural style popular
among commercial buildings of that . . . — — Map (db m246680) HM
Obverse
In 1961 Castle Park resort owner Carter P. Brown proposed the idea of creating a public park with an "authentic Dutch windmill," a symbol of Holland's Dutch heritage. To do so. the city officials needed permission from the . . . — — Map (db m154379) HM
This Academic style building was constructed in 1925 by Henry Kraker, a well known Holland businessman. It was the site of the Kraker Hotel from 1926 until 1936. The interesting brick detailing and use of limestone are typical of this early 20th . . . — — Map (db m153218) HM
Built in 1930, this building was originally the site of Montgomery Ward Company. It also housed Vogelzang Hardware from 1960 through 1982 until the Outpost moved here in 1983. The structure’s exterior architectural detailing and terra-cotta facade . . . — — Map (db m153219) HM
This is an original piece of the old blades of our
windmill. The blades served De Zwaan from
the early 1900's through March of 2000.
This windmill was used as a lookout in the
Netherlands during World War II. If you look closely, you will be . . . — — Map (db m225662) HM
Originally the Holland City State Bank this Victorian Romanesque structure was built in 1892, under the leadership of J. Van Putten, bank president. The arcaded block was an architectural form often used to anchor business districts of the late . . . — — Map (db m153214) HM
This building was constructed in 1925 by the Holland Furnace Company whose company slogan was, “Holland furnaces make warm friends”. Notice the cozy “friends” at the top of the building. It operated as the Warm Friend Hotel and Tavern until 1981, . . . — — Map (db m153215) HM
In 1847 Holland's founder, the Reverend Albertus C. Van Raalte, purchased this property from the federal government for $2.32 an acre. When his son Benjamin returned from the Civil War in 1865, Van Raalte gave him the 160-acre tract. By 1873, when . . . — — Map (db m154392) HM
Dr. and Mrs. Henry Kremers commissioned local builder George Dalman to design and construct this house for them. Completed in 1889, the modified Elizabethan style dwelling was built primarily of native stone and locally manufactured brick. A . . . — — Map (db m182083) HM
Grace Episcopal Church
In August 1866 Manley Howard and Heber Walsh invited missionary Rev. Robert Wood to conduct an Episcopal service in Holland. Grace parish was organized the next year. The Rev. Joash Rice Taylor, its first rector, led . . . — — Map (db m182117) HM
Egbert H. Gold (1858-1928),
a Chicago industrialist and
inventor, acquired over one
hundred patents during his
lifetime. President of the
Chicago-based Vapor Car
Company, he devised a
heating system used by railroads. To build Marigold,
he . . . — — Map (db m230015) HM
Jenison is named for a pioneer family of English descent. Lemuel Jenison, son of a Revolutionary War soldier, came to the Grand River Valley from New York in 1835 with his family. Among the seven children born to Lemuel and his wife Sara were four . . . — — Map (db m176437) HM
1869 Vriesland Reformed Church
The congregation of the 1869 Vriesland Reformed Church was organized in 1846 in the Netherlands. Led by the Reverend Maarten Anne Ypma, forty-nine adults and their children emigrated to the United States in . . . — — Map (db m182460) HM
P. Henry De Pree
The Dutch immigrant family of P. Henry De Pree (1865-1943) came to the Zeeland area in 1849. With his brother William, P. Henry ran a hardware store and other businesses in Zeeland and Holland. After being elected Zeeland . . . — — Map (db m182458) HM
Veneklasen Brick Company
In 1848 Jan Veneklasen and his family emigrated from the Netherlands to Zeeland, in Michigan’s Dutch Kolonie.
A brickmaker by trade, Veneklasen founded a brickyard within a year of his arrival – one . . . — — Map (db m111806) HM
Rogers City's art deco-style Post Office was built in 1940 at a cost of $60,365. The photo shows the building shortly after it opened in 1940. Both the exterior and interior have changed little during the intervening years.
One of the highlights . . . — — Map (db m123754) HM
From 1910 until 1964, this site was occupied by the copper-domed Presque Isle County Savings Bank shown in the photo. Construction of the building was supervised by local lumberman and business owner Paul H. Hoeft, who had the structure placed on a . . . — — Map (db m123696) HM
William J. Terney, lumber baron and Civil War veteran, moved to the Roscommon area in 1887 and erected this house in the late 1880s. Shortly afterwards, he began extensive lumbering operations here and was instrumental in bringing the railroad . . . — — Map (db m232306) HM
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George M. Nason (1859-1929) built this house in 1907-08. The Nason family had emigrated from Northampton, England, to Buffalo, New York, in 1832. George’s father, Robert (1831-1907), came to Chesaning in 1852 and engaged in . . . — — Map (db m180643) HM
Leamington and Madeline Stewart built this Queen Anne house in 1895-97. The house was based on Design No. 53 in George F. Barber’s The Cottage Souvenir No. 2, a pattern book published in 1891. Barber advertised the house’s cost at $5,250. . . . — — Map (db m180641) HM
Frankenmuth
The settlement of Frankenmuth and the organization of Saint Lorenz Evangelical Lutheran Church occurred simultaneously. Pastor Wilhelm Loehe of Neuendettelsau, Bavaria, was inspired to establish a German Lutheran colony by . . . — — Map (db m168040) HM
Benjamin and Adelaide Cushway
Benjamin (1810-1881) and Adelaide (1812-1877) Cushway (formerly Cauchois) were prominent settlers in the Saginaw Valley. Both descended from early French-Canadian families of Detroit. Between 1827 and 1834, . . . — — Map (db m180583) HM
This figure is the remaining part of a fountain given to the city by former Governor Aaron T. Bliss in 1902 and placed in Old Federal Park as a memorial to his comrades who fell in the battles of the Civil War.
In 1936, prior to the . . . — — Map (db m181904) HM
The Saginaw Evening News declared the Hoyt Library "a noble institution" and "the pride of all Saginawians" when it opened in October 1890. The library was a gift to the people of Saginaw from New York businessman Jesse Hoyt (1815-1882), who . . . — — Map (db m180603) HM
Carsonville's high school building was located at this
site and served area students from 1917 to 1975 at which
time a new high school opened two miles east of the village. While.
the building was razed in 1990, the following year four new . . . — — Map (db m212456) HM
This handsome building was the first church erected in Buel Township. Known as the Buel United Methodist Church, it was dedicated on December 3, 1882. The founding trustees were Robert Jolley, David Chewings, Halver Hulverson, Nicholas Van Natter, . . . — — Map (db m154386) HM
This Crib barn, c. 1850, was built before the two
major forest fires in the Thumb of 1871 and 1881.
The Barn was owned (and believed to have been
built) by Charles Decker, who also founded the
Village of Deckerville in the late 1860's.
The . . . — — Map (db m212469) HM
This traditional 1920's lakefront cottage features
Greek revival columns,
trap door-type windows
in the gables and an unusual
fireplace made entirley
of beach stone. — — Map (db m212467) HM
Ownership transferred to the
Michigan Department of
Natural Resources, February 2000
Restored and Operated since 1988 by
the Gulliver Historical Society,
for the people of Michigan, in cooperation with
the Michigan Department of Natural . . . — — Map (db m165337) HM
This clock was built in the early 1950's by John Sandula at the age of 76. John Sandula copied the clock housing and works from his memory of a 156 year old Hungarian Cathedral Clock. It only differs from it's European counterpart by the figures . . . — — Map (db m119378) HM
Herman C. Frieseke House
Herman Frieseke built this house in 1872. The bricks used were from the tile and brick factory that he and his brother, Julius, had opened in 1865 beside the tracks of the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee . . . — — Map (db m119492) HM
The state legislature set off Wales Township from Clyde Township on March 27, 1841. It was considered one of the finest agricultural districts in St. Clair County. In 1889 citizens voted to build a town hall. On November 8, 1890, the township board . . . — — Map (db m154892) HM
City Hall of Marine City was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior in 1982. Constructed in 1884, it was designed by the noted architectural firm of George Dewitt Mason and Zachariah . . . — — Map (db m218015) HM
City Hall of Marine City was built in 1884 designed by the firm of George Dewitt Mason and Zachariah Rice, Detroit. Mason, principal designer, chose to reflect a style popularized by the Boston architect Henry Hobson Richardson and now known as . . . — — Map (db m123788) HM
This excellent Queen Anne-style house, completed in 1890, was the residence of Wilbur F. Davidson until his death in 1913. Born in Adrian in 1852, Davidson opened a Port Huron dry goods store in 1882. The next year he installed in the store the . . . — — Map (db m241413) HM
At this point the Grand Trunk Western Railroad
tunnel, linking Port Huron
with Canada, passes underneath Military Street. This
international submarine
railway tunnel --
first in
the world -- was opened in
1891. The tunnel's total
length . . . — — Map (db m212487) HM
This lighthouse, oldest in Michigan, was built in 1829 to replace a tower destroyed by a storm. Lucius Lyon, the builder, was Deputy Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory and later a United States senator from Michigan. In the 1860s workers . . . — — Map (db m156750) HM
In 1902 the city of Port Huron secured money from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to erect a municipal library. Two years later, this grand, Beaux-Arts-style building was completed at a cost of $45,000. Chicago architects Patton and Miller . . . — — Map (db m76105) HM
During the early twentieth century,
known as the "Golden Age of Steam-
boating, pleasure craft were numerous
on the St. Clair River. In 1925 the
local Rotary Club decided that a
luxurious establishment was needed to
accommodate the large . . . — — Map (db m233532) HM
This Queen Anne style structure was erected in 1899 by Scottish-born James Livingston. He gave the house to his daughter, Louise Livingston McColl. During the late nineteenth century, Livingston and his son-in-law, James McColl, produced linseed oil . . . — — Map (db m154915) HM
Peter DeWitt Bush (1818-1913), the second permanent resident of the village of Caro, donated this site for the county courthouse square in 1866. Then he, along with two other pioneer settlers, moved an old frame church to the site to serve as the . . . — — Map (db m101635) HM
Millington Bank Building Built in 1898 Michigan Historical Center, Michigan Department of State Registered Local Site No. 1971
Property of the State of Michigan, 1996 — — Map (db m128200) HM
The architecture of the Pump House is unique with its exaggerated roofline and solitary chimney. Water was first pumped from local artesian wells or natural springs. In 1908, the pump was converted from steam to hydroelectric power.
The wells . . . — — Map (db m217923) HM
Cast iron grilles in an ancient Greek floral motif highlight the frieze of this temple-front Greek Revival house. Built in 1853 for Henry D. Bennett, Secretary and Steward of the University of Michigan, it became the home and studio of local . . . — — Map (db m125085) HM
In 1858 Main Street jeweler Joseph C. Watts built his large brick home on the northeast corner of Liberty and Division within easy walking distance of his Main Street shop. Multiple fireplaces, a roof-top widow's walk, and ornate trim in the . . . — — Map (db m125134) HM
In 1913 James and Clarice Foster attached a modern addition to their Italianate home and rooming house and moved their "House of Art" store from its original location on the corner of Liberty and State. The addition "stands as peaceful and . . . — — Map (db m177581) HM
In 1844 Benjamin Ticknor, a U.S. naval surgeon from Connecticut, built this Classic Revival house on his 183-acre farm in Pittsfield Township. He used cobblestone construction, which originated in upstate New York. The rear wing includes a small . . . — — Map (db m101798) HM
This Cornerstone Is
From The Original Church
At Huron and Division Streets.
That Building Was
Demolished In 1935.
The Cornerstone
Was Placed Here In
August Of 2003. — — Map (db m181693) HM
In 1909, University of Michigan regent Arthur Hill (1865eng) bequeathed to the
University the funds to construct an auditorium suitable for superior musical
performances and large enough for a gathering of the entire student body. Designed
by . . . — — Map (db m238626) HM
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The Martha Cook Building first housed women students of the University of Michigan in 1915. New York lawyer William W. Cook, a Michigan alumnus, donated the building. The Collegiate Gothic residence was named for Cook's mother, . . . — — Map (db m93666) HM
Horace H. and Mary A. Rackham, generous donors to the University of Michigan, established the Rackham Fund in 1933 “for the benefit of humanity.” Feeling that the graduate school offered possibilities of the most far-reaching benefits, the Rackham . . . — — Map (db m65357) HM
So named in honor of him who suggested the idea of constructing it Professor Charles Simeon Denison, for forty-two years teacher of stereotomy, mechanism, and drawing in the University of Michigan.
This tablet is placed here by his . . . — — Map (db m100445) HM
Designed by the Detroit firm of George Mason and Albert Kahn, the New Engineering Building was completed in 1904, and enlarged through expansion of its east wing in 1910. Created to anchor the southeast end of the original campus, the building . . . — — Map (db m181702) HM
William L. Clements (1882, LLD 1934hon) was a regent of the University of Michigan (1910-1933) whose life-long avocation was the collection of books, maps and related materials on American History from 1492 to 1800. In 1922, he donated to the . . . — — Map (db m93665) HM
By the 1880s the area between downtown and the railroad along the Huron River supplied lumber, carts and carriages, stone work, coal, oil, and gas. Business owners and workers lived nearby amid a changing ethnic and racial mix. . . . — — Map (db m236169) HM
By the late 1870s, Ann Arbor was a thriving and prosperous business center. The streets facing Courthouse Square contained some of the town's grandest commercial buildings. Originally, the northwest corner of Main and Huron was the site of a . . . — — Map (db m163838) HM
Washtenaw County solved a dilemma in 1954. By the terms of town founder John Allen's original gift, proceeds of the sale of the Courthouse Square land might go to Allen's heirs, not to the county, if it were sold for other use. That . . . — — Map (db m156710) HM
Michigan pioneer Elnathan Botsford settled this site in 1825. Harry Boyd Earhart of Detroit, president of the White Star Refining Corporation, purchased the farm in 1917 and named it "The Meadows." The Olmsted Brothers, nationally known . . . — — Map (db m101826) HM
Sutherland-Wilson Farmstead Historic District Built Between 1830-1865 The LeClair Barn is named in honor of Donald and Betty LeClair founding members and long-time leaders of the Pittsfield Charter Township Historical Society and guiding force . . . — — Map (db m236085) HM
The stately Victorian home of Edith & Harmon Holmes and accompanying double-story carriage house (seen in photos) was built on E. Middle Street in 1886. It housed the Holmes family, which founded Chelsea Milling Company and Jiffy Mixes, until . . . — — Map (db m228911) HM
Historically the building located on the northeast corner of Main and Middle was known as the McKune Block. The block was called McKune after its owner and builder Timothy McKune built this late Commercial Italianate building in the late 1870s. . . . — — Map (db m207742) HM
Fred Rider was the grandson of Captain Ira Rider, an early settler (1831) and first Postmaster in the township (1832). An early road map of Washtenaw County (1839) shows only one location in the Township, "Riders".
Fred Rider, an excellent . . . — — Map (db m170578) HM
In 1831, Presbyterian families from Newark, New York, traveled by boat through the Erie Canal to Detroit. Settling in the Saline area, they held their first religious service on July 18, 1831. Thereafter, services were held in schoolhouses, . . . — — Map (db m101650) HM
This lovely building has been many homes.
It was built in the Italianate style in 1860, as our nation's Civil War approached, for the family of bank president Asa Dow. It continued as a home for families until 1922. As apartments, it . . . — — Map (db m96994) HM
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The Ypsilanti Water Tower was designed by William R. Coats and constructed as part of an elaborate city waterworks project that began in 1889. Located on the highest point in Ypsilanti, the tower was completed in 1890. It is 147 . . . — — Map (db m95370) HM
The Barlett[sic]-Travis house embodies three distinct architectural periods of S.E. Michigan. Donated to Canton in 1988, it was moved to this site in 1989 and restoration began in earnest in 1993. In 2002, the house was completed and opened to the . . . — — Map (db m99712) HM
This house, built around 1927 by Charles and Anna Kandt, represents the foursquare, a house type popular during the early twentieth century, particularly in the teens and twenties. Charles Kandt opened a hotel in Dearborn in 1903 and engaged in . . . — — Map (db m31686) HM
Clara and Henry Ford built Fair Lane on 1,300 acres, a few miles from where they both were born. As Henry skyrocketed to global fame with the success of the Model T, Fair Lane was their sanctuary.
The estate along the Rouge River included a . . . — — Map (db m217363) HM
When it was dedicated on March 22, 1928, Fordson High School was hailed as "one of the finest school buildings in the United States." Designed in the Neo-Tudor style, the school is reminiscent of sixteenth century English universities and manor . . . — — Map (db m32948) HM
In 1926, a 2.5-acre rose garden was designed for this meadow, with the help of landscape architect Herbert Kellaway and rosarian Harriet Foote. Once completed, the garden contained approximately 10,000 rose plants of 400 varieties and cost more than . . . — — Map (db m98927) HM
This distinctive neighborhood was born in 1919 and 1920.
In those years, Henry Ford built 156 homes for sale to his Dearborn Fordson Tractor Plant employees. The two-story, three- and four-bedroom homes were built with the most current . . . — — Map (db m120397) HM
The Dearborn Inn
Henry Ford built the Dearborn Inn in 1931 to accommodate overnight travelers arriving at the Ford Airport. Located opposite the inn on Oakwood Boulevard, the airport opened in 1924. The 179-room inn, designed by Albert Kahn, . . . — — Map (db m36017) HM
The Ford Rotunda is a lost landmark
that is still remembered fondly. Architect Albert Kahn — who designed many Ford factories and buildings — designed the building for Ford's exhibit at the 1933-34 "Century of Progress" World's . . . — — Map (db m120457) HM
The intersection of Michigan Avenue and Schaefer Road
has been important in metropolitan Detroit's history. In its early days it was a rest stop on the road between Detroit and Chicago. Joseph Schaefer built the Six Mile House tavern at the . . . — — Map (db m121407) HM
In the year 2011 the Detroit Yacht Club was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Construction began on this facility in 1921 with Commodore Gar Wood laying the cornerstone. This clubhouse, our fifth, was completed and dedicated on May . . . — — Map (db m208106) HM
Dedicated to the Ralph C. Wilson J Foundation,
The Dancer stands in recognition of the generous
support for much-needed repairs to the Anna Scripps
Whitcomb Conservatory. The Albert Kahn designed
conservatory is one of Belle Isle Park's . . . — — Map (db m212335) HM
Henry and Clara Ford lived here from 1908 to 1915. The Fords were the first of a community of automobile magnates to reside in the Boston-Edison neighborhood. The Italian Renaissance Revival house, designed by Malcomson, Higginbotham and Clement of . . . — — Map (db m177724) HM
Designed by Harry J. Rill in 1897 for the Detroit Cornice and Slate Company, this building features a finely crafted facade of galvanized steel. The use of sheet metal in commercial buildings evolved from the cast iron structures built in New York . . . — — Map (db m172520) HM
Built about 1918, this Neoclassical-style structure houses Gamma Lambda Chapter, third graduate chapter of the first black national Greek letter fraternity in the United States: Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Founded in 1906 at Cornell University, . . . — — Map (db m172650) HM
This concert hall was built in 1919 as the home of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. It was constructed to satisfy the demand of its music director, the internationally esteemed Ossip Gabrilowitsch, that a suitable hall be built. Architect Charles . . . — — Map (db m172642) HM
Blocks of limestone that once formed the old Detroit post office were used to construct the Zion Lutheran Church in 1933. This Neo-Gothic-style church, designed by the firm of Maul & Lentz of Detroit, was dedicated on May 27, 1933. In 1882 West . . . — — Map (db m172689) HM
Alexander Chapoton built this Queen Anne style townhouse in the early 1870s. Chapoton, a builder, was one of the contractors for the state capitol in Lansing. A descendant of one of Detroit’s oldest families, he was a state legislator and a member . . . — — Map (db m174292) HM
