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Willie James "Honey" Honicutt, Jr. (June 10, 1932 - April 8, 2015) was an American Negro league baseball player. He played in the negro leagues until 1960, playing for the Grand Rapids Black Sox, Kansas City Monarchs and Detroit Stars.
Home fields and move to Grand Rapids [ edit ] The Monarchs played their home games in the minor league Kansas City Blues ' Association Park from 1920 to 1923, and moved to the Blues' new park, Muehlebach Field, in mid-1923.
DeVos Place Convention Center, erected on the Grand River in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a multi-purpose convention center. It is named for Richard DeVos, who donated $20 million towards its construction. The convention center contains a large, 162,000 square foot exhibit hall and an additional 40,000 square foot ballroom. [1]
Grand Rapids is a city in and county seat of Kent County, Michigan, United States. [4] At the 2020 census, the city had a population of 198,893, [5] making it the ...
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The John W. Blodgett Estate, also known as Brookby, is an historic landmark at 250 Plymouth Rd, SE, East Grand Rapids, Michigan. [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 [1] and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1977. [2] The property is owned by Aquinas College. [4]
The Meyer May House is a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in the Heritage Hill Historic District of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the United States. It was built in 1908–09, and is located at 450 Madison Avenue SE. It is considered a fine example of Wright's Prairie School era, and "Michigan's Prairie masterpiece". [1] [2]
City of Grand Rapids: 29 October 1907 City of Grand Rapids was a double-decker passenger streamer that caught fire while docked in Little Tub Harbour. For the security of the harbour, the City of Grand Rapids was towed out into Georgian Bay and released to burn. From there she drifted to the head of Big Tub Harbour where she burnt to the ...