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Highland Park Drive
TitleHighland Park Drive
Date1913
SubjectHighland Park Association (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionBlack and white photograph of two women and a child on the walk at the intersection of Lake Ave. and...
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First Presbyterian Church
TitleFirst Presbyterian Church
Date1915
SubjectFirst Presbyterian Church (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe local Presbyterian church was begun by Rev. William Ferry in 1834. This building began as a stru...
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First Reformed Church
TitleFirst Reformed Church
Date1889
SubjectFirst Reformed Church (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionKnown as “the Church of Many Towers”, this was the third building to serve the congregat...
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Second Reformed Church
TitleSecond Reformed Church
Date1966
SubjectSecond Reformed Church (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionAn outgrowth of the First Reformed Church, this congregation formed in 1871. Its first two buildings...
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Seventh Day Adventist Church
TitleSeventh Day Adventist Church
Date1970
SubjectSeventh Day Adventist Church (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe founders of this church gathered initially in 1907. Their first permanent place of worship was e...
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St. John
TitleSt. John's Lutheran Church
Date1969
SubjectSt. John's Lutheran Church (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionFounded in 1865, the first St. John’s Lutheran Church was built two years later on the northw...
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St. Patrick
TitleSt. Patrick's Catholic Church, Demolition
Date1964
SubjectSt. Patrick's Catholic Church (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe first Catholic church in the area was built in 1857 in Spring Lake. In 1867, the Grand Haven fa...
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St. Patrick
TitleSt. Patrick's Catholic Church, Manse and School
Date1950
SubjectSt. Patrick's Catholic Church (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionSt. Patrick’s Church was built on Fulton Street in 1872 with funds from Captain Thomas Kirby....
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St. Paul
TitleSt. Paul's Evangelical Church
Date1950
SubjectProtestant church buildings -- Michigan -- Grand Haven
DescriptionIn 1882, a group of Evangelical Germans formed a congregation named the Evangelical-Lutheran St. Pau...
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St. Paul
TitleSt. Paul's United Church of Christ
Date1966
SubjectSt. Paul's United Church of Christ (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe cornerstone for this church was laid in 1893 when it was known as the Evangelical-Lutheran St. P...
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Dunewood Medical Center
TitleDunewood Medical Center
Date1976
SubjectHospitals -- Michigan -- Grand Haven
DescriptionJust west of Grand Haven’s hospital, the Medical Center was built on the site of Grand Haven...
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Elizabeth Hatton Hospital
TitleElizabeth Hatton Hospital
Date1919
SubjectHospitals -- Michigan -- Grand Haven
DescriptionGrand Haven’s first hospital, opened in 1919, was named after William Hatton’s decease...
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Elizabeth Hatton Memorial Hospital
TitleElizabeth Hatton Memorial Hospital
Date1950
SubjectElizabeth Hatton Memorial Hospital (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThis was the former home of the William H. Loutit family, purchased by William Hatton and presented ...
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Grand Haven Municipal Hospital
TitleGrand Haven Municipal Hospital
Date1970
SubjectHospitals -- Michigan -- Grand Haven
DescriptionGrand Haven’s second hospital was built at 1309 Sheldon Road. Construction began in 1938 and ...
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North Ottawa Community Hospital, 1970
TitleNorth Ottawa Community Hospital, 1970
Date1970
SubjectHospitals -- Michigan -- Grand Haven
DescriptionThe first major expansion of the hospital was the addition of a maternity wing in 1953. In 1970, a $...
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North Ottawa Community Hospital, Aerial View
TitleNorth Ottawa Community Hospital, Aerial View
Date1968
SubjectHospitals -- Michigan -- Grand Haven
DescriptionGrowth in the area around Grand Haven led to the creation of the North Ottawa Community Hospital Aut...
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Norwood Apartments, formerly Elizabeth Hatton Hospital
TitleNorwood Apartments, formerly Elizabeth Hatton Hospital
Date1950
SubjectHospitals -- Michigan -- Grand Haven
DescriptionThis house, once owned by Captain William Loutit, was purchased by William Hatton, president of Eagl...
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Cutler and Savidge Lumber Mill
TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionDwight Cutler and Hunter Savidge established the Cutler and Savidge Lumber Company in 1858. They had...
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Cutler and Savidge Lumber Camp #1
TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Camp #1
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Camp (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionAt the time this photograph was taken, this camp was one of three owned by the Cutler and Savidge Lu...
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Cutler and Savidge Lumber Camp #2
TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Camp #2
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Camp (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionOne of three camps owned at the time by the Cutler and Savidge Lumber Company, its loggers felled th...
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Cutler and Savidge Lumber Mill
TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe mill, owned by Dwight Cutler and Hunter Savidge, and later by Cutler and William Savidge, was on...
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Wyman, Buswell Lumber Mill
TitleWyman, Buswell Lumber Mill
Date1870
SubjectWyman, Buswell Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionCharles E. Wyman and Henry W. Buswell began operating a sawmill in 1864 and built the structure show...
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Ferry and Sons Saw Mill
TitleFerry and Sons Saw Mill
Date1860
SubjectFerry and Sons Saw Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe area’s first functioning sawmill, the mill was built in 1836 at the foot of Columbus Stre...
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Cutler and Savidge Lumber Mill
TitleCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill
Date1894
SubjectCutler and Savidge Lumber Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThe Cutler and Savidge Lumber Company owned several mills in Grand Haven, Ferrysburg and Spring Lake...
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Emlaw, Boyce and Storr Mill
TitleEmlaw, Boyce and Storr Mill
Date1867
SubjectEmlaw, Boyce and Storr Mill (Grand Haven, Mich.)
DescriptionThis photograph was taken the year the sawmill opened on the north bank of the South Channel in Gran...
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