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Heritage Hill is adjacent to downtown Grand Rapids and is the city's oldest residential district. Its 1,300 homes date from 1843 and represent Michigan's largest and finest concentration of nineteenth and early twentieth-century houses. Nearly every style of American architecture, from Greek Revival to Prairie is represented.
Maria-Letizia Bonaparte [b] (née Ramolino; [c] 24 August 1750 or 1749 [a] – 2 February 1836), known as Letizia Bonaparte, was a Corsican noblewoman and the mother of Napoleon I of France. She received the title " Madame Mère " (French for "Madame Mother") due to her status as the Emperor's mother.
A fragment of the old Yankee Hill neighborhood on the lower east side, including the William Metcalf house, which started as a Greek Revival-styled home in 1854, [33] the 1862 early-Italianate Carey house, [34] the 1874 full-on Italianate Inbusch house, [35] the 1883 Queen Anne-styled Brandt doublehouse, [36] the 1904 Gothic Revival-styled ...
Pfister Hotel: A Thanksgiving brunch will be served from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom. The buffet includes Wisconsin cheeses, flat breads and rolls, chef-prepared eggs and carved ...
The windows on that side were sealed and covered with 1940s wallboard at this time, making the original entrance disappear. Above the portico, on the second floor was a small chapel for the family. Later, first floor drop ceilings were added, obscuring the details in the ceilings, esp. in the men's parlor (SE corner) The carriage house is long ...
The Brown family restaurants didn’t make it through the 1980s, though. The downtown cafeteria went first, closing in 1981. Then, in 1987, R.J. Brown closed both the east and west restaurants ...
This new west-side restaurant’s sign went up weeks ago. Now, there’s an opening date. Flashback Friday: 1970s Wichita loved Judge Riggs, known for singing waiters, London broil
Mr. Fables, a DBA of Grand Rapids Innkeepers Management, Inc., was a chain of cafeteria-style family restaurants located throughout Western Michigan. Two cousins formed the chain after taking over the Kewpee Beefburger stand from, dad and uncle, Gerald Boyles. The name "Fables" was the result of putting together the last names of the two ...