If you ever find yourself walking around downtown Grand Rapids you should take a closer look at some of the older buildings you go past.
I was walking to my car after grabbing dinner at Tupelo Honey when I stopped for the light to change and noticed the impressive architecture of the building on the corner of Ottawa Ave and Pearl Street.
I should have used my phone to take a picture but thankfully Google Maps can show what I noticed.
At the top of the building was the numbers 1874, that’s not the buildings address, but instead the year that it was built.
I started to wonder, ‘what is the oldest building in Grand Rapids?’…