Casemate Museum

 Built in 1834, Fort Monroe served as an important site for African Americans during the Civil War. It was the only Union-held fort in the Upper South. In May 1861, Gen. Benjamin Butler declared three runaway slaves who arrived ...

Holland Lake Guard Station

The Holland Lake Ranger Station, built in 1909, was the first national forest ranger station in the upper Swan Valley. It was located on the west shore of Holland Lake where the swimming beach is now.

Ben Holland and his ...

Kalamazoo City Hall

The present City Hall was dedicated by Mayor S. Rudolph Light on September 1, 1931. It was designed in the Art Deco style by Weary and Alford of Chicago, and was erected by Miller-Davis and equipped at a cost ...

State Theatre- South Burdick

• The State Theater is one of Michigan’s most outstanding theaters remaining from the Golden Age of the movie palace in the 1920s.

• The State is 148 by 148 feet in plan and ...

Gilmore Building- Opera House

HISTORY – built in 1869 - Architect: Unknown

• Built in 1869 – you can see the original cornice detail on the outside of the building.

• Originally built as an opera house ...

Food Dance- Van Kersen Building

HISTORY – built in 1890 and 2006

• Architect: Unknown

• Starting in 1869, brothers Isaac and James Van Kersen opened a grocery store on the corner of East Main and Pitcher Street ...

First National Bank- PNC Bank

• The First National Bank was founded in 1863 with $383,000 in assets

• In 1885, they moved to the ground floor of a building on this site

• In 1912 ...

Coney Island- Hall Block

General info – Building history

• Built – 1895 – by George D.B. Hall, a real estate speculator.

• First businesses in the ground floor were the Chicago Pant Company – a tailor ...