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- Notes:
- This view shows Ottawa Street has not been completely graded and you can see the ascent toward the old hill. Ca. 1862
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- The new, multi-windowed factory building for the Tunis Johnson Cigar Co, located at 427 Ottawa N.W., is shown in this photograph. The neighboring building to the south is the Henry Moser Garage at 423 Ottawa N.W. The street is brick pavement, and there are several cars parked on both sides of the street. A street lamp is in front of the garage.
- Date Created:
- 1937-12-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view shows the decorated arch for the Centennial Celebration. Several horse-drawn wagons are on the street. A restaurant on the left advertises soda water and ice cream, breakfast, dinner and supper, and 25 cent oysters. Sweet's Hotel is behind the arch on the left.
- Date Created:
- 1876-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Monroe St. looking northwest. Front view of three Victorian row buildings of four stories each, plus a corner view of fourth building which juts out from the others and has an elaborate clock tower on top. The three flat buildings are labeled “12 Foster, Stevens & Co. 10”, “Spring and Co.”, and “Gilbert”. The Gilbert building houses Studley & Barclay and the Grand Rapids Rubber Store. The clock tower building houses L. Higer and Sons (clothiers).
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of the 1200 block of Wealthy St SE showing houses on the south side of the street in the Eastown neighborhood, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Most of these houses were built in the early 1900s and are typical of the housing stock in the neighborhood.
- Date Created:
- 1947-01-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of Monroe Ave. at Ottawa, looking East. Shows Fanny Farmer, Winkleman's and Steketee's Department Store.
- Date Created:
- 1954-02-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of Campau Square showing Grand Rapids National Bank (without upper floors, later called McKay Tower) and Monroe Avenue.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of Monroe Ave. looking West. Shows the Morton House and Steketee's Department Store. Photo taken on September 5, 1951.
- Date Created:
- 1951-09-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View shows Lake Drive SE, west of Wealthy St SE, in the Eastown neighborhood, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The photo shows Berger Chevrolet on the north side of the street. This building now houses the Eastown branch of the U.S. Postal Service. On the south side of the street is Muir-Doolittle insurance agency, which now is the home of Gallery 154, and the Eastown Theatre, which is now the Uptown Assembly of God.
- Date Created:
- 1959-05-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Wealthy St at Lake Drive SE, looking east in the Eastown neighborhood, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Photo shows Wealthy Lunch on the right and Hammer Cortenhof on the left.
- Date Created:
- 1950-06-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Photo shows the Eastown branch of Old Kent Bank, located at 1515 Wealthy St SE, at the intersection of Lake Drive, in the Eastown neighborhood, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1959-05-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view shows Ransom Street looking north from the school tower. Several homes can be seen from this view.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Looking east, this photo shows Hondorp Meats, located at 956 Wealthy St SE, near the corner of Diamond Ave SE in the Wealthy Theater Historic District, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The Barth Pharmacy was also located in the Boerma Building, which is no longer standing.
- Date Created:
- 1954-12-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Looking west, this photo shows the 900 block of Wealthy, just west of Diamond, in the Wealthy Theater Historic District, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1950-03-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View looking south on Ottawa Avenue at Pearl Street. Michigan Trust building is on the left. Furniture Exhibitors building is on the right.
- Date Created:
- 1925-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View shows Lake Drive, east of Wealthy in the Eastown neighborhood, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The photo shows Kroger, Polly Anna Pastry and Vanderveen's on the west side of the street.
- Date Created:
- 1959-05-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Looking north from 201 Ionia Avenue (at the corner of Cherry Street), on the right is a freight warehouse.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- The Monument Square Building on Monroe, corner of Sheldon. Corner view of a 2-story building of white tiles, with large windows on both levels. Large awnings shade, with the words "Daane Witters," the windows and entrances on the lower level. Many contemporary automobiles are parked along the street, and a white Hekman’s truck can be seen in front view near the right side of the image. The Y.M.C.A. building is to the right. The Benjamin Insurance Agency can be seen on the left side of the building, as well as other unidentified buildings farther down. The Pantlind Hotel can be seen in distant view on the far left of the image.
- Date Created:
- 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- “Bank that was robbed twice within four years. Last robbery was this year (1930). Robbers took $10,000. All were caught and received sentence of life imprisonment at Marquette for robbery under arms. One bystander was shot but recovered. Leonard and Turner Branch.” The building is of white brick, with fancy brickwork and two bay windows on the front. Behind the building (right side of photo) is a sign for “Lily White Flour”, above which is a porch with laundry hanging on a line. The bank occupies the corner portion of the building, which also houses a grocery store (Wilburt Ley appears on awning). Three automobiles are parked on the street at the side and in front of the building. There is a traffic light at the intersection, and a fire hydrant on the corner.
- Date Created:
- 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Kent County courthouse. A horse-drawn wagon is parked in front the courthouse. Two women shown crossing the street in the center foreground.
- Date Created:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of Monroe Avenue looking southeast from Campau Square in downtown. Grand Rapids National Bank building is on the left and Herpolsheimer's is seen in the background on the right. Also shown are shoppers, automobiles, and streetcars.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- A view of Wealthy St SE, looking west in the Eastown neighborhood, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The photo shows businesses on both the north and south side of the street, in approximately the 1500 block and also shows the intersection of Lake Drive.
- Date Created:
- 1954-06-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This street scene shows on the right Pastoor Brothers Foods at 215-219 Michigan St. NE . On the left Grand Rapids Coat & Apron Service at 224 Michigan St. NE in the Belknap/Lookout neighborhood in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The site is currently part of the Spectrum Health Butterworth Campus.
- Date Created:
- 1949-03-28T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Copy print of photo looking north on Canal Street from the intersection of Pearl Street in downtown. Storefronts, buggies, and people line the streets, and a track for the streetcar runs down the center. Photo circa 1875-1880.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of Monroe Ave. S.E. from Campau Square in downtown, with the National Bank of Grand Rapids, later the McKay Tower at left on the site of the old Wonderly Building. Houseman's, Kline's, Richman's, Steketee's are shown on the left. W. T. Grant Co., Three Sisters, Trankla & Co., and Herpolsheimer's are shown on the right. Also shown are shoppers, automobiles, and buses.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View looking west on Monroe Avenue. Herpolsheimer's is on the left. The Pantlind Hotel can be seen in the distance.
- Date Created:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view shows Campau Square looking east. Spring and Avery Dry Goods is located on the right. A horse-drawn streetcar is visible on the bottom left.
- Date Created:
- 1875-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of Campau Square looking down Monroe Avenue towards the Pantlind Hotel. Shown are pedestrians, automobiles, and a streetcar.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Exterior, corner of Pearl St. and Monroe North in downtown Grand Rapids. Campau Sqaure. Hotel Pantlind, later the Amway Grand Hotel. Woolworth sign with clock. Old Kent Bank.
- Date Created:
- 1949-12-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view shows the Furniture Temple and City Hall. West Michigan Printing Co. is visible in the background. A few cars are seen farther down the street. Ca. 1920.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Seymour Square at Eastern Avenue Se, Grand Rapids, Michigan. In the foreground is Prose Five and Dime at 1951 Eastern Avenue SE, just north of Burton on the west side of the street. Photo taken on August 20, 1941. Article: Grand Rapids Herald, 8-24-1941, first page of classifieds.
- Date Created:
- 1941-08-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of the Perkins House, looking west on Pearl Street. Michigan Trust building is behind the home.
- Date Created:
- 1925-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view of Campau Square (Grab Corners) shows the Sweet's Hotel on the left, Remington's Custom Shirts on the right. A barber shop sign is in the center foreground. Several horse-drawn wagons are on the street.
- Date Created:
- 1873-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This view shows Pearl Street looking west. On the right side of the photo, Crane's Museum of Freaks, Snakes and Whiskered Ladies is featured. It was located on the second floor of the Houseman & May Clothing Store. The California Wine House, The Daily Times, a tobacco store and printing shop are also visible on the right side of the photo.
- Date Created:
- 1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This photo has drawn details added. Pearl Street view, 1879. Powers Building on the left. Several horse-drawn buggies line the street.
- Date Created:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- New Watson building on site of Watson home at the corner of Sheldon and Fulton. Corner view of a low, spreading two-story building with large plate glass windows on the main level and equivalent triple or quadruple sash windows on the second level. The windows are separated by brick uprights, with white embossed medallions at the top of each upright. There are two rows of decorative work above the upper windows, and an urn-shaped finial above the corner entrance. The street scene includes several parked cars, three five-globe streetlights, a traffic light, and a policeman standing in the center of the intersection. On the left side of the image is a partial view of the Metz Building, and to the right an unidentified 6-story building. The top of the Shank Fireproof Storage Co. can be seen above the Watson building. A sign on one of the streetlights says “Cars do not stop here”.
- Date Created:
- 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of Market Street. Horse-drawn wagons on the left. Two men are standing in the street on the right.
- Date Created:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Looking north from 201 Ionia Avenue (at the corner of Cherry Street), on the left is a freight warehouse.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- This 1948 photo of Grandville Avenue and Clyde Park shows William Groen & Son Hardware at 1600 Grandville Ave. Sw, Treat's Drug Store at 1534 Grandville, the Roosevelt Park branch of Old Kent Bank at 1530 Grandville and Jurgens & Holtvluwer at 1514 Grandville where it intersects with Roosevelt Ave. Article: Grand Rapids Herald, 2-22-1948, p. 9.
- Date Created:
- 1948-02-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Lake Drive looking East, intersected by Wealthy (left) & Norwood (right). Shows Walt's Sunoco Service Station. Eastown neighborhood, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Photo circa 1940.
- Date Created:
- 1940-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of Monroe Avenue looking North from Campau Square. Pantlind Hotel is on the left and Chop Suey on the right, also shown are pedestrians, automobiles, and streetcars.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- An exterior view of the Federal Square Building located at the corner of Pearl and Ionia. Photo taken in January 1953.
- Date Created:
- 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- A view of the intersection of Wealthy SE & Lake Drive SE in the Eastown neighborhood, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The photo shows the People's National Bank at 1515 Wealthy St SE. The building now houses the New Yorker Men's Wear Store.
- Date Created:
- 1954-06-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of the 1500 block of Wealthy St SE in the Eastown neighborhood, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The photo shows Peck's Drug store in the original location of the Grand Rapids streetcar car barn.
- Date Created:
- 1957-11-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of Campau Sqaure in downtown Grand Rapids, with the Pantlind Hotel, McKay Tower, Monroe Avenue, and automobiles.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Looking west, this photo shows the Pastoor Food Market at 1437-39 Wealthy St SE and the L.C. Seitz Variety Store at 1443-45 Wealthy St SE in the Eastown neighborhood, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The food market site is now the home of Billy's Lounge.
- Date Created:
- 1942-02-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of Fulton and Division, showing the Porter Block and the Monument Square Building in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1947-05-27T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- View of Monroe Avenue looking southeast from Campau Square in downtown. Grand Rapids National Bank building is on the left and Herpolsheimer's is seen in the background on the right. Also shown are shoppers, automobiles, and streetcars.
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- A view of Monroe Avenue at Division Street in downtown Grand Rapids. Photo shows Goebel and Brown, Peck's Drug Store, Herpolsheimers and other stores along this busy stretch on Monroe.
- Date Created:
- 1951-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)