Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Jenison Fieldhouse (alternately referred to in university publications as Jenison Field House) is a 10,004-seat, later reduced to 6,000-seat, multi-purpose arena in East Lansing, Michigan. The arena opened in 1940 and was named for alumnus Frederick Cowles Jenison, whose estate, along with PWAP funds, funded the building.
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 ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
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.
Historically, this is the third building to house the Michigan government. [3] The first state capitol was in Detroit, the original capital of Michigan, and was relocated to Lansing in 1847, due to the need to develop the state's western portion and for better defense from British troops stationed in Windsor, Ontario.
When the statue area was reconstructed in 2005, the old checkered windows on the north side of Demonstration Hall were replaced with matching glass so that the building was a more aesthetically pleasing backdrop to the new statue. In 2008 the building's multipurpose room was renovated into a marching band rehearsal space called Band Hall. 2008
In 1922 the Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs, organized in 1895, had 423 clubs with about 50,567 members, [8]: 99 not including any African-American women's clubs. Women's City Club, Detroit, Michigan, NRHP-listed; Detroit Study Club, founded 1896, black women's literary organization also involved in social issues and community welfare