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... View Details
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... View Details
TitleFirst Reformed Church Date1889 SubjectFirst Reformed Church (Grand Haven, Mich.) DescriptionKnown as “the Church of Many Towersâ€, this was the third building to serve the congregat... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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.... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
TitleElizabeth Hatton Hospital Date1919 SubjectHospitals -- Michigan -- Grand Haven DescriptionGrand Haven’s first hospital, opened in 1919, was named after William Hatton’s decease... View Details
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 ... View Details
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 ... View Details
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 $... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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... View Details
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