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The former downtown Grand Rapids Steketee's with department store signage still visible in 2005. Steketee's / ˈstɛkɪtiːz / was a department store based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. It was begun in 1862 in Grand Rapids, and soon grew to several stores throughout southwestern Michigan. After a purchase by the Dunlaps company of ...
In the early 1890s, the two men moved from Ypsilanti, Michigan to Grand Rapids and opened a shoe store. The business thrived, and soon the brothers constructed their own building in the heart of the central business district. By the turn of the century, construction was complete and the brothers' shoe business was even better.
Mel Trotter. Melvin Ernest Trotter (May 16, 1870–September 11, 1940) was the founder of the Grand Rapids, Michigan City Rescue Mission, which he led for more than forty years, becoming a leader in American fundamentalism during the first four decades of the twentieth century.
Katie Feenstra — Women's National Basketball Association player. Julius Franks — All-American college football player. Brent Gates — MLB player. Julie Glass — roller derby and competitive speed skater. Luke Glendening — NHL player. Paul G. Goebel — NFL player; naval officer; mayor of Grand Rapids. Paul Grasmanis — NFL player.
At the end of the Civil War in 1865, Prussian-American businessman and Union Army veteran William G. Herpolsheimer co-founded the dry goods business Voight, Herpolsheimer & Co. in Michigan City, Indiana, in partnership with Charles G. A. Voigt. In 1870, he opened a second store in Grand Rapids. He handed over management of the business to his ...
Just for Feet – bankrupt in 1999, acquired by Footstar, final stores closed in 2004. MC Sports – filed for bankruptcy and closed in 2017. Modell's Sporting Goods – first store opened in 1889. On March 11, 2020, the company filed for bankruptcy, and announced it would close all 115 stores.
Kinney Shoes. The G.R. Kinney Company was an American manufacturer and retailer of shoes from 1894 [1] until September 16, 1998. [2] It was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in March 1923, with the symbol KNN. [3] The shoe concern was started by George Romanta Kinney whose father ran a general store in rural Candor, New York.
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 ...