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Dimensions. 13 m × 9.1 m × 16 m (43 ft × 30 ft × 54 ft) Location. Vandenberg Plaza, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Coordinates. 42°58′10″N 85°40′15″W / 42.96937°N 85.67075°W / 42.96937; -85.67075. La Grande Vitesse, a public sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, is located on the large concrete plaza surrounding ...
Meyer May House. / 42.954189; -85.659189. The Meyer May House is a Frank Lloyd Wright -designed house in the Heritage Hill Historic District of Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the United States. It was built in 1908–09, and is located at 450 Madison Avenue SE. It is considered a fine example of Wright's Prairie School era, and "Michigan's Prairie ...
Kendall College of Art and Design. / 42.965806°N 85.668472°W / 42.965806; -85.668472. Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University (KCAD) is a college of art and design located in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan . Founded in 1928 as a private art academy, the college merged with Ferris State University in 2000.
Completed. 1924. Michigan State Historic Site. Fountain Street Church (FSC) in Grand Rapids, Michigan started out as a Baptist congregation, but it changed its views when liberal Christianity became popular in the late 1800s. Most of the people who influenced this change were graduates of the University of Chicago Divinity School, a pioneer of ...
The Grand Rapids Public Schools is a public school district serving Grand Rapids, Michigan . Grand Rapids Public Schools (GRPS) is Michigan's eight largest public school district. [1] It is also the third-largest employer in the City of Grand Rapids. GRPS serves nearly 14,557 students with 2,700 employees, including 1,400 teachers.
An 1868 pictorial map of Grand Rapids. By 1838, the settlement incorporated as a village, and encompassed approximately three-quarters of a mile (1 km) . The first formal census in 1845 recorded a population of 1,510 and an area of 4 square miles (10 km 2 ). The city of Grand Rapids was incorporated April 2, 1850. [9]
101 Monroe Center Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503: Visitors: 255,000 (estimate, 2010) Ranked 8th largest cultural institution in Michigan based on 2010 attendance figures; Director: Cindy Foley, Director and CEO: Architect: Munkenbeck+Marshall Architects, 2002-2004 & Kulapat Yantrasast of wHY Architecture, 2004-completion: Website: www.artmuseumgr.org
Plaza Towers is a mixed-use highrise building in Grand Rapids, Michigan. At 345 feet (105 m), it was the tallest building in the city until the completion of the River House Condominiums in 2008. The building contains apartments on floors 8–14, individually owned condominiums on floors 15–32, and a 214-room [2] Courtyard by Marriott hotel ...