Category: #LostEastLansing

  • Campus Theatre (1950—1988)

    The Campus Theatre began its life in 1950 as the Lucon Theatre, built by the eponymous Lucon Corporation. The lobby entrance and marquee at 407 East Grand River Avenue were flanked by retail spaces on either side, making a single commercial block that reached the corner of Charles Street and extended about halfway to Division…

  • Johnson W. Hagadorn House (1905—1972)

    Johnson W. Hagadorn, M.D. (1839–1910) was born near South Lyon, in Oakland County. He attended the State Normal School at Ypsilanti followed by the University at Ann Arbor, where he received his M.D. in 1870. After arriving at Lansing in 1873 he opened a practice and pharmacy with his brother Alexander, who was a physician…

  • Edward Porter Kinney House, 829 E. Grand River Ave. (c. 1903 – c. 1987)

    Edward Porter Kinney (1867–1955) founded the Capitol Electric Supply and National Coil Company in 1895, later known as the Capitol Electric Engineering Company. “As proprietor and president of this company, Kinney supervised many electrical engineering jobs throughout the Lansing area including work on the Capitol and on the Michigan Agricultural College campus. E. P. Kinney married Wilhelmina…

  • Justice William W. Potter House, 334 Evergreen Ave. (1909—2021)

    William W. Potter (1869–1940) had a distinguished, forty-year career in Michigan politics, having been state senator, gubernatorial candidate, and attorney general. From 1927 to 1931 he was president of the Michigan State Bank at East Lansing. In 1928 he was elected to the Michigan Supreme Court, and served a term as Chief Justice in 1935.…