KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI
GENEALOGY & LOCAL HISTORY
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Old Postcards and Photographs of Kalamazoo
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Frank Lloyd Wright in Kalamazoo Frank Lloyd Wright Houses - Kalamazoo Public Library Art Deco Architecture in Kalamazoo MICHIGAN HISTORIC SITES ONLINE (includes Kalamazoo sites) National Register of Historic Places - Kalamazoo Disappeared Kalamazoo - devoted to disappeared Kalamazoo buildings etc. American Memory Project - Historic Buildings and Structures: Kalamazoo, Galesburg, and Oshtemo |
KALAMAZOO VIEWS

| Bird's eye view of the Village of Kalamazoo in the early 1880's (facing north, the Kalamazoo River shown below the hills at the top of the picture). |
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View from Kalamazoo National Bank Building - 1908
| South Burdick Street - probably 1908, bird's eye view from the Kalamazoo National Bank Building constructed in 1907 (see Kalamazoo views page 2). The building on the right with the flag is the old Post Office on the corner South Burdick and South St . Note the Bijou Theater on the left - it was in business for two years, 1906-1908, as a vaudeville theater. |
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Downtown Kalamazoo 2004
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Armory, 1920click on image to enlarge it
The Parlor, Borgess Hospital, 1912
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Borgess Hospitalclick on image to enlarge it
Borgess Hosptial 1950click on image to enlarge it
Bronson Hospital, 1909click on image to enlarge it
Bronson Hospital, 1950'sclick on image to enlarge it

Bronson Park, spring flowering trees in front the Pioneer Fountain, 1964.
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| FOUNTAIN OF THE PIONEERS in Bronson park designed by Alfonso Iannelli of Chicago and built in 1939. The statue was a subject controversy since it purports to represent the Native American removal to Iowa. At the statue's 1940 unveiling, Iannelli said it depicted the "advance of the pioneers'' and the Indian was shown in "a posture of noble resistance, yet being absorbed as the white man advances.'' |
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Bronson Park 1913click on image to enlarge it
Bronson Park 1926click on image to enlarge it
Bronson Park, McColl Memorial Fountain, 1930click on image to enlarge it
Annual Art in the Park fair, Bronson Park, 1960
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Clothesline art show, Bronson Park 1960s