Marshall

Honolulu House
Architect: Abner Pratt
Date Built: 1860
Address: 107 North Kalamazoo St.
Currently Marshall Historical Museum.

Fitch House
Architect: Jabez Fitch
Date Built: 1840
Address: 310 North Kalamazoo Ave.
Greek Revival home with five fluted ionic columns.

Battle Creek

Battle Creek Intermodal Passenger Facilty
Architect: William Kessler and Associates
Date Built: 1982
Address: 119 South McCamly
Post-Wrightian train, bus, and taxi terminal. Uses dissimilar colors and shapes. It is a "low horizontal gable-on-hip-roof structure of black glazed concrete block covered concourses on all sides". The canopies are supported by glass-block round columns that are lit from the inside.

Michigan Central Railway Station
Architect: Rogers & McFarland
Date Built: 1887-88
Address: 55 West Van Buren St.
Richardsonian Romanesque. Still being used for railroads and buses.

Kalamazoo

Parkwyn Village
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Date Built: 1947
Address: 2662, 2801, 2816, & 2882 Taliesin Dr.
A cooperative subdivision in Usonian Automatic.

Prouty House
Architect: Amariah Prouty
Date Built: 1852
Address: 302 Elm St.
Gothic Revival, scroll work on the front gable.

St. Joseph

Ina Moriss Harper House
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Date Built: 1950-51
Address: 2571 Old Lake Shore Dr.
Overlooks Lake Michigan.

Howard Anthony House
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Date Built: 1951
Address: 1150 Miami Rd.
Cypress and sandstone house. Overlooks the Saint Joseph River.

Grand Rapids

David M. Amberg House
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Date Built: 1910
Address: 505 College Ave.

Meyer and Sophie Amberg House
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
Date Built: 1908
Address: 450 Madison Ave. & Logan
Two-story T-shaped residence. Shallow hipped roof covered with red tiles. Leaded and colored-glass-accented casement windows and doors. Accurately and fully restored to its original furnishings by Steelcase, Inc. who acquired it. Open to the public by appointment.

Steelcase Corporate Development Center
Architect: WBDC, Inc., Architects, Planners, Engineers.
Date Built: 1986-89
Address: 6100 East Paris Ave.
Seven-story pyramid that rises 128 feet above its surroundings. Exterior walls are polished red Carnelian granite and aluminum sandwich panels.

Holland

Herman Miller Design Yard
Architect: Jeffry A. Scherer of Meyer, Scherer and Rockcastle, Ltd.
Date Built: 1988-89
Address: 375 West 48th St.
Arranged to resemble a farm, campus-like placement of buildings, with ventilators and clerestories, white houses with porches and bright red silos.

Zeeland

Herman Miller Headquarters Building
Architect: George Nelson and Gordon
Date Built: 1958. Additions, 1969, 1970, A. Quincy Jones.
Address: 8500 Byron Rd.
A campus plan on a hundred acre site modeled after a European village square. Building contains offices, manufacturing operations, warehousing, health care facilities and a cafeteria.

Grand Rapids

Fish Ladder
Landscape Architect: Joesph E. Kinnebrew
Address: 560 Front St. N.W.
Date Built: 1975
Designed to rejuvenate the center city of Grand Rapids. Environmental design. Visitors can watch migrating fish on their way up stream to spawn.

Frederick Meijer Botanic Garden
Landscape Architects: David Nederveld and James van Sweden
Date Built: 1996
Address: 3411 Bradford N.E.
Michigan's largest indoor conservatory with greenhouses and an educational center. Sculpture park with a collection of bronze sculptures by nationally recognized artists. Pathways.

Ah-Nab-Awen Park
Landscape Architect: Sasaki-Walker Associates
Address: Between Pearl and Bridge on the Grand River
Part of the front lawn of the Gerald R. Ford Museum Grand Rapids Project
Robert Morris Earthwork, Belknap Park
Artist: Robert Morris
Landscape Architects: Grand Rapids Parks Department Landscape Architects & Engineers
Address: 30 Coldbrook NE
A landscape sculpture on the hillside that is a pathway.

Kalamazoo

Five Senses Garden
Date Built: established in 1964
Landscape Architect: O'Boyle, Cowell, Rohrer and Associates, Inc.
Address: 1441 Oakland Drive, at the John F. Kennedy Center
The garden is a demonstration space designed to allow handicapped students to receive sensory perceptions at their own space. The garden is maintained by the Gardenettes, members of the Kalamazoo Garden Council.

Kalamazoo Mall
Landscape Architect: Victor Gruen Associates.
Date Built: 1959
Address: Kalamazoo
The blending of architecture, landscape architecture and the allied arts into an integrated urban design.

Upjohn Company
Landscape Architects: Sasaki-Walker and Associates
Date Built: 1950
Address: 7000 Portage Road
Art Deco motifs on the brick facade with bronze borders, railings and door frames and a panel of brick glass.

Grand Rapids

McBride Art Reference Library
Address:155 Division N., Grand Rapids, MI. 49503
Telephone:(616) 459-4677
Fax (616) 459-8491
Advertising design, commercial art.

Grand Rapids Public Library
Music & Art Department
Address: 60 Library Plaza NE., Grand Rapids, MI. 49503
Telephone: (616) 456-3600, 456-3622
Furniture.

Kendall College of Art and Design
Frank and Lyn Steenberg Library (reference library)
Address: 111 Division Ave., N., Grand Rapids, MI. 49503-3194
Telephone: (616) 451-2787
Fax (616)451-9867
Furniture, graphic design, industrial design, interior design. Furniture collection.

Albion

Albion College Department of Visual Arts
Address: 611 E. Porter, Albion, MI. 49224
Telephone: (517) 629-1000
Other: admission fee-none, guided tours, lectures-not on a regular basis (open to public), permanent, temporary & traveling exhibitions.
15th century-present prints, decorative arts.

Gardner House Museum
Address: 509 S. Superior St., Albion, MI. 49224
Telephone: (517) 629-5100
Other: admission fee-none, guided tours, permanent and temporary exhibitions. Furniture, domestic and commercial artifacts, always on exhibit

Decatur

Historical Newton Home
Address: Marcellus Hwy., Decatur, MI. 49051
Other: admission fee-none, guided tours.
Victorian furniture

Grand Rapids

Grand Rapids Art Museum
Address: 155 Division North, Grand Rapids, MI. 49503
Telephone: (616) 459-4677
Fax: (616) 459-8491
Other: admission fee, guided tours, lectures- once a month usually depending on what is on exhibit, permanent & temporary exhibits.
Decorative art & furniture-always on exhibit.

Public Museum of Grand Rapids
Address: 54 Jefferson S. E., Grand Rapids, MI. 49503
Telephone: (616) 456-3977 Fax (616) 456-3873
Other: admission fee, guided tours, permanent & temporary exhibits.
Decorative art & furniture-on permanent exhibit.

Holland

Holland Area Arts Council
Address: 25 W. 8th St., Holland, MI. 49423
Telephone: (616) 396-3278
Other: admission fee-none, guided tours, student exhibits-high school & younger.
Usually have 10 exhibits per year on all types of media.

The Holland Museum
Address: 31 W. 10th St., Holland, MI. 49423
Telephone: (616) 392-9087 & 394-1362
Other: admission fee, permanent & temporary exhibits.
The Netherlands of Dutch decorative arts, furniture-on permanent exhibit.

Poll Museum of Transportation
Address:US. 31 & New Holland St., Holland, MI. 49423
Telephone: (616) 399-1955
Other: admission fee, guided tours.
Transportation Museum.

Kalamazoo

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
Address: 314 S. Park St., Kalamazoo, MI. 49007
Telephone: (616) 349-7775
Fax (616) 349-9313
Other: admission fee-none, exhibits-about 25 per year of all types of media, guided tours, lectures- monthly (usually no fee unless it is non-funded).
15th-20th century graphics in permanent collection on exhibit occasionally.

Western Michigan University
Department of Art, College of Fine Arts
Address: Kalamazoo, MI. 49008
Telephone: (616) 387-2455
Fax: (616) 387-2882
Other: admission fee-none, BFA. & MFA. shows in student gallery, faculty art exhibit, guided tours, lectures-depending on what is on exhibit (open to the public), temporary, traveling & loan exhibitions of all media.
19th & 20th century American & European fine & decorative arts.

Berrien Springs

Andrews University
Address: Berrien Springs, MI. 49104
Telephone: 616-471-3203
or toll free 800-253-2874
Application deadline: rolling
Calendar: quarters
Design courses: architecture
Graduation requirements: 4 yr. BS 190 quarter hours, 5 yr. Bachelor of Architecture 250 quarter hours.
Undergrad. design majors: architecture- BS (54 quarter hours are architecture); 5 yr. professional degree- B. of Arch. accredited by NAAB (182 quarter hours are architecture).
Other: internship required in some majors, senior project required in some majors.

Grand Rapids

Calvin College
Address: Grand Rapids, MI. 49546-4388
Telephone: 616-957-6106 or 800-668-0122
Application deadline: rolling
Calendar: 4-1-4
Design courses: 3 graphic design courses offered through the art department. Pre-architecture.
Graduation requirements: 124 semester hours for BFA.
Undergrad. design majors: Studio Art-BA: concentration in Graphic Design; Studio Art- BFA: concentration in Graphic Design (9 semester hours out of 124 are graphic design).
Other: Pre-architecture is not a major- more of a transfer program, preparatory classes for architecture.

Kendall College of Art and Design
Address: 111 Division Avenue North, Grand Rapids, MI. 49503
Telephone: 616-451-2787 Ext. 111 or 800-676-2787
Application deadline: rolling
Calendar: semesters
Design courses: furniture design, graphic design, industrial design, interior design. Graduation requirements: 120 credits
Undergrad. design majors: Furniture Design-BFA (48 credits); Industrial Design-BFA (45 credits); Interior Design-BFA (54 credits) accredited FIDER; Visual Communications- BFA: concentration in Graphic Design (51 credits).

Allendale

Grand Valley State College
Address: Allendale, MI. 49401-9403 Telephone: 616-895-2025 or 800-748-0246
E-mail: brittaim@gvsu.edu
Application deadline: 7/30
Calendar: semesters
Design course: graphic design
Ggraduation requirements: 120 semester hours.
Undergrad. design major: Graphic Design-BFA ( 58 semester hours in design).
Other: internship required for some majors, senior project required for some majors.

Kalamazoo

Western Michigan University
Address: West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI. 49008
Telephone: 616-387-2000
E-mail: ask-wmu@wmich.edu
Application deadline: rolling
Calendar: semesters
Design courses: graphic design, industrial design, interior design, pre-architecture.
Graduation requirements: 122 credit hours, 131 credit hours for industrial design.
Undergrad. design majors: graphic design-BFA (43 design credits); industrial design-BS (21 design credits); interior design-BS (39 design credits).
Graduate design majors: Graphic Design-MFA (60 hours).
Other: Apparel studies option through textile technology production major. Internships required for some majors, senior project required for some majors. Pre-architecture is not a major- more of a transfer program, preparatory classes for architecture.

Olivet

Olivet College

Address: Olivet, MI. 49076-9701
Telephone: 616-749-7635
or 800-456-7189 (in-state)
Application deadline: 9/1
Calendar: 4-4-1
Design courses: commercial design (4 courses in design)
Graduation requirements: 120 semester hours.
Undergrad. design majors: Visual Arts-BA: concentration in commercial design (6-12 are design semester hours).

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