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Lansing Woman's Club Building, built in 1890. Michigan Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Company Building, built in 1890. Comerica Bank Building, built in 1931-32 as the Bank of Lansing Building. The Arbaugh, built in 1905 for the Cameron & Arbaugh (later Arbaugh) department store. J.W. Knapp Company Building, built in 1937–38.
The Arbaugh is a mixed-use building containing 48 loft-style apartments, which was originally built as a department store. The building is located at 401 South Washington in Lansing, Michigan. [2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. [1]
Michigan State University Sailing Club and the Lansing Sailing Club are located on Lake Lansing, where sailing regattas are hosted throughout the summer. The City of Lansing operates a total of 3.55 square miles (9.2 km 2 ) of parkland, of which 2.80 square miles (7.3 km 2 ) is parkland, 0.43 square miles (1.1 km 2 ) are golflands, and 0.31 ...
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In 1937, Knapp's commenced construction of a new building, completed in 1939, at 300 S. Washington, on the site of the Hotel Downey, which was demolished to make room for the new store, [3] and the still earlier Lansing House hotel and saloon. [9] The store expanded by the 1940s to cover a full city block. [1]
The first settler in North Lansing, later known as Lower Town and now Old Town, was John W. Burchard, an attorney from Mason. He built the first log cabin in Lansing in 1843 on land purchased from James Seymour. He built a dam across the Grand River later that year and hoped to build a mill, but drowned at the dam in 1844 while inspecting a ...
An older Federal Building, constructed in 1895, was located in Lansing. Although this building was enlarged in 1913, by the 1930s the post office and various other federal agencies inhabiting it had outgrown the space. Recognizing the need, in 1932 the government hired architectural firm Bowd-Munson Company to design a new building ...
The first state office building in Lansing was constructed in 1853; this was replaced with another building in 1872 and demolished the following year. By the 1910s, the state realized the need for a new office building, and funds were appropriated beginning in 1917 for a new structure.