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The Robert J. Whaley House is a two-story, Queen Anne house with asymmetrical massing and a hipped and dormered roof. The exterior is painted brick. The front facade is three bays wide, with a wraparound front porch covering the entrance in the left-most bay. A tall window with an elaborately carved rounded-arch lintel is above the porch roof.
Opera House (123 West Grand River Avenue): The former Opera House is a three-story red brick building constructed in 1881 and designed by architect Almon C. Varney. The first floor contains storefronts, while the upper two floors contained a theater. In 1938, a shiny black carrara glass storefront was installed.
Prior to its designation as a National Historic District a number of homes were demolished. One notable home that was lost was the Bissell house, built for Melville R. Bissell (inventor of the carpet sweeper) & his wife Anna. The site is now occupied by Grand Rapids' NBC television affiliate station, WOOD-TV Channel 8.
The most significant of these is the Michigan Central Station (1913) by Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stem; it was bought by Ford in 2018 and is to be the center of a major multi-use development. Fisher Building (pictured) and nearby Cadillac Place are designated National Historic Landmarks in the City's New Center area, both were designed by ...
The Mathew Geary House is a wood-framed single family home built about 1846. Its raised basement, an architectural response to bedrock close to the surface, is characteristic of traditional Mackinac Island architecture. The Geary House remained in the Geary family until 1968, when it was purchased by the Mackinac Island State Park. 4: Grand Hotel
This house was constructed in approximately 1920, and is a slight modification of Design B-7513 in the 1918 house-plan book "Modern American Homes," by C.L. Bowes. The house is clad in alternating narrow and wide rows of shingles, and has a cross-gable porch resting on brick piers. 78: Wall - Seppanen House: Wall - Seppanen House: December 22, 1983
Augustus Woodward's plan for the city following 1805 fire. Detroit, settled in 1701, is one of the oldest cities in the Midwest. It experienced a disastrous fire in 1805 which nearly destroyed the city, leaving little present-day evidence of old Detroit save a few east-side streets named for early French settlers, their ancestors, and some pear trees which were believed to have been planted by ...
Many of the houses were old, and the residents were moving out into newer homes. The larger homes in the neighborhood were being cut up into duplexes or apartments, and some were demolished to build apartments. In 1967, the Old West Side Association was formed to promote conservation of the neighborhood.