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When Holland, Michigan residents Willard Wichers and Carter Brown were looking for a way to pay homage to the city's Dutch heritage, they set up a project to bring a Dutch windmill over to the United States. However, many of these listed structures had suffered serious damage in World War II. As a result, the Dutch government had imposed a ban ...
In 1964, the City of Holland purchased the windmill De Zwaan from a retired miller in the town of Vinkel in the province of North Brabant, the Netherlands. The windmill was shipped from the Netherlands to the port of Muskegon, Michigan on the ship Prins Willem van Oranje. It was brought by truck from Muskegon to its present location on Windmill ...
Holland is a city in Ottawa and Allegan counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. Located in the western region of the Lower Peninsula , the city is situated near the eastern shore of Lake Michigan on Lake Macatawa , which is fed by the Macatawa River .
The Holland Downtown Historic District is a commercial historic district located along Eighth Street from just east of College Avenue to River Avenue, and along and River Avenue from Ninth Street to just north of Eighth Street in Holland, Michigan. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [1]
The Holland Historic District is a primarily residential historic district in Holland, Michigan.It includes buildings along 11th, 12th, and 13th Streets from roughly Washington Boulevard on the west to College Avenue on the east, along with buildings on 14th Street from Pine Avenue on the west to just past College Avenue on the east, and buildings on 15th Street from Pine Avenue to River Avenue.
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Holland was first settled in 1847 by Dutch immigrants led by of the Rev. Albertus C. van Raalte. Hundreds of additional Dutch immigrants settled in Holland in the following few years. Isaac Cappon arrived in New York City in 1847, then came to Holland in 1848. He worked in a tannery until 1856, when he and fellow immigrant John Bertsch founded ...
The Egbert H. Gold Estate, also known as the Marigold Lodge, is a summer estate located at 1116 Marigold Lane in Holland, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1] The estate is owned by furniture manufacturer Herman Miller, which uses it as a training center and private hotel for its customers. [2]