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In the 1850s and 1860s, the neighborhood rapidly became a fashionable and upscale place to live, and larger and more elegant houses appeared in the district as upper-class citizens moved in. Important local residents who lived in the district in the late 1800s included Allen Potter, the first mayor of Kalamazoo, Frank B. Lay, owner of the ...
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Martin W. Roberts was born in Batavia, New York and moved to Kalamazoo about 1870. Roberts was a prominent builder and architect in late nineteenth-century Kalamazoo. When he arrived in 1870, he constructed this house for his own use.
The Haymarket Historic District is a primarily commercial historic area in Kalamazoo, Michigan.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 27, 1983. The area includes Michigan Avenue between Portage St. and the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad line; also 105-141 E. Michigan Avenue.
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In the 1840s, what is now the Vine Area Historic District was part of a large farm owned by Michigan governor Epaphroditus Ransom. Ransom sold this tract of land to Paulus DenBleyker, a recently arrived Dutch immigrant, in the early 1850s. DenBleyker platted the land into streets and lots, many of which he sold to his fellow Dutch immigrants.
On January 7, 2019, the City of Kalamazoo accepted jurisdiction over those streets from MDOT, ending their status as state trunklines. [1] As a result, MDOT rerouted M-43 out of downtown Kalamazoo, running along US Highway 131 west of Kalamazoo north to Plainwell and then southeasterly along M-89 back to its previous alignment at Richland.
The Central Business District, or downtown Kalamazoo, is divided into six districts: Arcadia, Bronson Park, East End, Haymarket, Kalamazoo Mall, and South Town. Educational and cultural venues include the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, the central branch of the Kalamazoo Public Library, and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts. The city's nightlife is ...