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Art Van Furniture store, Ann Arbor, MI, 2010. Archie "Art" Van Elslander founded Art Van in 1959, opening his first store in a 4,000 square-foot space at 10 Mile Road and Gratiot Avenue in East Detroit. [3] He expanded to three stores in that same year, and a fourth store opened in 1960. His first employee was not hired until this time. [4]
The Mathias J. Alten House and Studio is a single-family home located at 1593 East Fulton Street in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was owned and lived in by Mathias Alten, a German-American impressionist painter, from 1914 until his death in 1938. [2] The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. [1]
In 1874, the new company opened their six-story factory, complete with wholesale and retail showrooms, in Grand Rapids. [2] By 1882, this factory covered three city blocks. [3] The company is known for making Victorian furniture. [4] George W. Gay, although continuing to be involved with Berkey & Gay, also struck out on his own business ventures.
After Van Raalte took over in 1922, the brand was modified and somewhat simplified, with the text “LIMBERT FURNITURE, TRADEMARK, BY VAN RAALTE CRAFTSMEN, GRAND RAPIDS & HOLLAND MICHIGAN”. By 1928 the brand was called “The Crest of Quality”, and was applied to furniture in a gold and black sticker form. [2]
The Steelcase Plants No. 2 and 3 complex contains four buildings: a single-story brick factory building with a monitor roof constructed in 1908, a four-story brick industrial loft-type factory building constructed between 1926 and 1930, a brick power plant also constructed in 1926, and a single-story concrete block building constructed in 1953.
34-50 Monroe Center NW, Grand Rapids, Michigan Coordinates 42°57′51″N 85°40′07″W / 42.96417°N 85.66861°W / 42.96417; -85.66861 ( Peck
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
In 2020, Art Van Furniture filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with plans to liquidate all company-owned stores. [3] Former Levin Furniture owner Robert Levin stepped in soon after and signed a deal to buy back the Levin Furniture stores to save them from potential closures in 2020.