Category: #LostEastLansing
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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…
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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.…