KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI
GENEALOGY & LOCAL HISTORY
KALAMAZOO VIEWS
The
Brown Block, 1910
Old Postcards and Photographs of Kalamazoo
click on link to see photo !
| BAK- American National Bank: In 1934 the Bank of Kalamazoo Kalamazoo failed with the collapse of the banking system in the Great Depression. It then became the American National Bank Building. It was designed in 1929 by a Chicago architectural firm, Weary & Alford who designed the First National Bank Building as well. |
| CH - see Corporation Hall /City Hall for information about the first Kalamazoo City Hall. Also see the building that served as Corporation Hall when it became home to J. C. Penny 1925-56. |
| FOUNTAIN OF THE PIONEERS in Bronson park designed by Alfonso Iannelli of Chicago and built in 1939. The statue was a subject controversy since it purports to represent the Native American removal to Iowa. At the statue's 1940 unveiling, Iannelli said it depicted the "advance of the pioneers'' and the Indian was shown in "a posture of noble resistance, yet being absorbed as the white man advances. |
| CS- Since 1917 our kitchens have been making hand- made chocolates, ice creams, and nuts of the highest quantity. No preservatives are added to our chocolates. We use our own secret recipes. Caramel ice cream is our specialty! We deliver daily and mail around the world - phone or write us -" The Chocolate Shop was owned and operated by Charles Senne. It was moved to the Mall in the 1960's. |
| kvm - stained glass window came from the home of Horace B. Peck. His home, built in 1889 and located on South Rose Street at the site now occupied by the Kalamazoo Public Library, served as the Kalamazoo Public Museum from 1927 until 1958. The window was removed when the house was demolished in 1959 for the Kalamazoo Public Library and Museum Building. The window is now on display at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum. |
| kpl -Stained glass displayed at the entrance of the Kalamazoo Public Library Local History Room. A plaque indicates it was saved from an earlier library building erected in 1893 and, donated to the current library by Ruth Chenery. It had been located over the main entrance, see 1908 picture below. There was another stained glass over the interior doors, a Kalamazoo Valley Museum photograph of it can be seen at: http://www.kpl.gov/history/vfile/kvm/03_0376.jpg . Also see the KPL stained glass page at http://kpl.gov/collections/LocalHistory/KPL/GlassTour/GlassPix.aspx |
| South Burdick Street - probably 1908, bird's eye view from the Kalamazoo National Bank Building constructed in 1907. The building on the right with the flag is the old Post Office on the corner South Burdick and South St . Note the Bijou Theater on the left - it was in business for two years, 1906-1908, as a vaudeville theater. |
| WKZO - Channel 3, and WKZO Radio, 590-AM, part of the Fetzer Broadcasting System, in the 1960's. John Fetzer also owned the Detroit Tigers |
| Kalamazoo Photo Album | Frank Lloyd Wright in Kalamazoo |
| Michigan Historic Sites Online (includes Kalamazoo sites) | National Register of Historic Places - Kalamazoo |
| Disappeared Kalamazoo - devoted to disappeared Kalamazoo buildings etc. | American Memory Project - Historic Buildings and Structures: Kalamazoo, Galesburg, and Oshtemo |
Return
to Kalamazoo Co. Michigan USGenWeb page
All rights reserved.
This site may be freely linked to but not duplicated
in any fashion without my consent.
The information on these pages is meant for personal genealogical
research only and is not for commercial use of any type.
