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The Castle Like Grand Trunk Depot in Lansing – Michigan Historical Marker

Constructed in 1902, this castle-like building with its square tower was the Lansing station for the Grand Trunk Western Railroad until 1971. For decades passengers streamed through its doors. Here servicemen left and returned from military duty. Children and adults alike associated this depot with the excitement of travel and vacations. This city’s joys and sorrows were reflected in this rail station; greetings and good-byes were the most vital ingredients. But gradually rail travel ebbed. Renovated as a restaurant in 1972, the building’s exterior remains unchanged. Gerald R. Ford from Michigan, the thirty-eighth president of the United States, dined here during a “whistle-stop” campaign tour on May 15, 1976.

I figured I would post a photo from Lansing today to thank the Lansing State Journal for the really nice article about me, it was really flattering and humbling to read it, if you want to read it you can HERE

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Getting Lost and Finding the Kingston School House #2

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Schools, Uncategorized .

This morning I decided to head out to Port Sanilac to get a pic of the lighthouse (a post for another day) on the way there heading east on M46 I got to the town of Kingston and when I get to a small town I like to drive around the area to see what I can find and I saw an old barn of in the distance so I headed out to it, then I saw another old barn and headed over that way and the for whatever reason I turned down another road and and about a mile or two down the road I saw this old school house on a farm. The Kingston School #2 built in 1892 is surrounded by electric fence, ( not that I trespass, I always stay on the road and respect other peoples property.) but it looks as if the cows wander around the old school. I thought to myself, maybe the farm has some smart cows since they have their own school. Sometimes I know where a location I want to photograph is before I go on a road trip, but I love it when I find something interesting by pure chance.

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Pewabic Pottery in Detroit – Michigan Historical Marker

Posted on April 9, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Michigan Historical Markers .

In 1903 Mary Chase Perry (Stratton) and Horace Caulkins founded Pewabic Pottery in a stable near downtown Detroit. Four years later, the present building was constructed a pottery works in the style of an English inn. Pewabic Pottery was part of the early twentieth-century Arts and Crafts design movement, which shunned machine-made products and championed the return of craftsmanship. Pewabics handmade ceramic wares became famous nationwide for their quality and brilliant, iridescent glazes. The companys architectural tiles were used in numerous public and private buildings including Detroits Guardian Building and the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. Pewabic Pottery is a National Historic Landmark.

Mary Chase Perry was born in 1867 in Hancock, Michigan. By age ten she had moved to Detroit. She studied china painting and sculpture at the Cincinnati Art Academy from 1888 tom 1890. In 1903 Perry co-founded a pottery in Detroit and named it Pewabic after the Upper Peninsula copper mine near Hancock. She later married architect William B. Stratton, who designed the Pewabic Pottery building. During her prolific career, Perry developed new, iridescent pottery glazes, taught and wrote widely about ceramics, and was awarded honorary degrees from the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. She died in 1961 at age ninety-four. Pewabic Pottery celebrated its centennial in 2003.

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The Beautiful Town of Elsie and it’s Water Tower

Posted on April 7, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in small towns, Water Tower .

I am not sure why but I like water towers, especially the old ones. Almost every town has one, and they usually have the name of the town painted on them. that must be an interesting job to pain water towers, but I digress. I really like this old tower in Elsie. The name of the town was derived from the first born child in the town, which was Elsie Tillotson in 1857. Her father was the first postmaster.

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The Michigan Bean Elevator in Henderson

Posted on April 6, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Grain Elevators .

I like this old Michigan Bean Elevator in Henderson. I especially like the old “Ghost Mural” of the Jack Rabbit Beans Logo, that’s probably because I am from Saginaw.

A few miles north of Owosso a post office with the name of Hazel Green was opened on May 14, 1868. Later in 1876 the village was renamed to Henderson and named after John Henderson who built and operated a store there in 1868.

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The Old Farmhouse In The Snow

Posted on April 5, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Forgotten Places, Houses .

I came across this old farmhouse in Presque Isle County standing silently in the snow drifted field. I wonder what it must have been like years ago to farm in northern Michigan being several miles from a large city. During the winter back in the days before four wheel drive trucks and snowmobiles a family must have depended on their house to survive the harsh Michigan winter. and while we are talking about the family that lived there, I bet they took their crops to this mill

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Aquinas Collage – Michigan Historical Marker

Posted on April 2, 2016 by Mike Sonnenberg Posted in Michigan Historical Markers .

Aquinas College in Grand Rapids had its beginning in 1887 as the Novitiate Normal School of the Dominican Sisters of Marywood. In 1922 it became Marywood College. When the college was moved downtown in 1931, it became the coeducational Catholic Junior College. It began operating as a four-year college in 1940 and was named in honor of the great medieval theologian and philosopher, St. Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas is primarily a liberal arts college. It was moved to its current campus, the former Lowe estate, in 1945. The campus is also home to Holmdene Hall which is rumored to be haunted, you can read about it HERE

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