Bøger af Kenneth Lingaur

Clare Michigan may seem like your ordinary Midwest town, but some of the people that lived here were far from usual. In these pages you will read about.. a man who was shipwrecked in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, a couple who missed their trip to America on the Titanic, a man who came to Clare with almost nothing and became her most famous citizen, and what story about Clare would be complete without gangsters. Where They Lived Historic Clare Michigan Homes and the People Who Lived in Them chronicles the lives of the people who lived in fifty-one historic Clare homes. After reading this book you will see these houses in a new light, and hopefully appreciate the history behind them.

James Alexander Quick came to Gaylord at the age of twenty-four in 1881. Upon his arrival he set out to build an array of diverse businesses. Most of these businesses were in partnership with either his brother Charles Quick, or Charles Quick and A. B. C. Comstock. They included a livery stable, general stores, Otsego County Bank, Delmont Hotel, and a carriage store. He was truly one of the famous early Gaylord pioneers. Besides his business interests, James Quick was a two-term Village Trustee. His poor health resulted in his early death at the age of fifty-two. He built his house at 120 North Center Street in Gaylord, Michigan in 1900. After his death, the house was the home to a number of doctors. The house is one of the best examples of the Queen Anne style to exist in Gaylord. James A. Quick and His House in Gaylord gives the details of Quick's life and the history of the house after his death.

When the Congregational Church in Jackson, Michigan was outgrowing its church building in the 1850s, it hired Syracuse, New York architect Horatio Nelson White to draw up plans for a new building. White proceeded to design what is now one of the oldest existing Romanesque Revival Church buildings in the state, and the only known building of his design in the State of Michigan. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017, this building is recognized as one of the important buildings in Jackson. After reading Sacred and Romanesque: The First Congregational Church Jackson, Michigan, you will know the story behind the building and what makes it so significant.