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- Description:
- Gift of Mrs. Helen Granger.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo shows flooding around houses on East Main Street.
- Date Created:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Located on Main Street (later Malcolm X Street) near Washington Avenue. It was built around 1873 and Rev. Bryant was pastor.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo shows flooding around houses on East Main Street. Gift of Mrs. Clifford Nye.
- Date Created:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Built by railroad tycoon Orlando Mack Barnes in 1875-1876, located at 137 West Main Street overlooking the Grand River. The "castle" was designed by L. D. Grosvenor and built at a cost of $40,000. It had six stairwells and nine fireplaces, among other details. Barnes' son Orlando Fleming Barnes maintained the house into the 1920s. Both served as Mayor of Lansing.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Cooley-Haze House built in 1903. Housed Women's Historical Center and Hall of Fame from 1987 to 2017. The architect was Edwyn Bowd.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- The Barnes residence was an example of the Victorian architecture which characterized the elite dwellings of the late nineteenth century. By the 1950s it had fallen into a state of disrepair as seen in this photo, and it was demolished by the City of Lansing for the creation of a parking lot. It stood at the south end of Capitol Avenue on West Main Street.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- This church was built between 1906 and 1908 on Main Street. It was sold in 1961 to the Catholic Diocese of Lansing, and in 1966 it was razed for the construction of the I-496 highway. (Main Street's name was later changed to Malcolm X Street.)
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Text attached to photo reads: "Here the Cedar Trail arrowed north through the forest along the Grand, and here, where the new Main street bridge was being built in 1949, the first crude bridge was placed in 1847. The settlement that grew up on both sides of the stream was "Upper Town," with a thriving little business district." Gift of Birt Darling.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- Photo shows flooding around houses on East Main Street.
- Date Created:
- 1904-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection