COLLECTION NAME:
Ward Morgan Collection
Record
Identifier:
7520-1.tif
Title:
Sturges-Young Civic Auditorium, exterior with stone façade
Date:
1957-08
Description:
Exterior view of sign and entrance to Sturges-Young Civic Center and Auditorium on 201 North Nottawa Street, Sturgis, Michigan. Stone façade features a raised relief of a harp, drama masks, laurel leaves, a banjo and a ribbon. The event center was built in 1955 by a Fort Wayne architect Alvin M. Strauss. The event center is named after Clara and Stella Sturges and Emma Young.
Client:
Miller-Davis Company (Kalamazoo, Mich.)
Photographer:
Morgan, Ward C., 1907-1997
Location:
Kalamazoo (Mich.)
Time Period:
1950 - 1959
Subject:
Midcentury modern (Architecture)
Subject:
Public buildings--Michigan--Sturgis
Subject:
Relief (Sculpture), American
Source:
7520-1, Ward Morgan Collection, A-1755, B & W, 4"x 5" negative
Rights Statement:
Copyright 2018 by Western Michigan University, all rights reserved. For additional permissions and further information contact the Western Michigan University Libraries: lib-dc@wmich.edu
Access Rights:
In Copyright; digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by the Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.
Type:
Still Image
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Relation:
14 photos in event - 7520
Digitization Date:
2004
Format:
image/tiff
Sturges-Young Civic Auditorium, exterior with stone façade
