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Grand Rapids takes its name from a series of rapids on the Wisconsin River. [3] The west and north part of what is now Grand Rapids, within three miles of the Wisconsin River, was in the "Indian strip," sold by the Menominee to the United States government in the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars. As such, it was logged and surveyed early. [4]
Point of origin of city of Eau Claire, at the confluence of the Eau Claire and Chippewa rivers, [26] with contributing buildings including the 1861 Kneer House hotel, [27] the 1875 Derge cigar factory, [28] and the 1893 grand Romanesque Revival Drummond-Cameron building.
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.
A cluster of six stately Neoclassical-styled buildings: the 1900 Oshkosh Public Library, [141] the 1914 Fraternal Reserve Association, [142] the 1924 Goettman Printing Company, [143] the 1925 Oshkosh Masonic Temple, [144] the 1929 U.S. Post Office, [145] and the 1925 Wisconsin National Life Insurance Building.
Noodles & Co. will renovate the former Pizza Hut building at 2001 Eighth St. S. in Wisconsin Rapids. When Noodles & Co. announced in July it would open a location in Wisconsin Rapids, its plans ...
Foster's Tavern was built by Anthony Foster, with construction beginning in 1801 and taking seven years or more to complete. The house is made from locally manufactured bricks, and features tied chimneys (separate chimneys joined by a wall or facade) at each end of a gable roof, hand carved woodwork (including bowed mantels and stair scrollwork), blown-glass windowpanes, soapstone hearths ...
Held the title as the tallest building in Grand Rapids from 1991 until 2008. [2] 3: Amway Grand Plaza Hotel: 318 / 97: 28: 1983: Held the title as the tallest building in Grand Rapids from 1983 until 1991. [3] 4: Bridgewater Place: 272 / 83: 18: 1993: Part of Bridgewater place complex, one of two buildings. [4] 5: Studio Park Tower: 270 / 82 ...
The Ledyard Block Historic District is a group of seven adjacent, coherently designed, nineteenth century commercial structures located within a square block at 123-145 Ottawa Avenue and 104-124 Monroe Center, NW, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The group of buildings was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]