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Tannery Row

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c. 1900, William G. Robinson; 1994–1995 rehabilitation, Cornerstone Architects. 16 Ionia Ave. SW
  • (Photograph by Catherine Boland Erkkila)
  • (Photograph by Catherine Boland Erkkila)
  • (Photograph by Catherine Boland Erkkila)

The mixed-use loft-style residential and retail adaptive reuse project brought back a five-story industrial building that lay vacant and deteriorating for over twenty years. Hirth-Krause Company built it for the manufacturing, storage, and sales of leather goods.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Kathryn Bishop Eckert
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Citation

Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Tannery Row", [Grand Rapids, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-KT18.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Michigan

Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 252-253.

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