Item description for Kalamazoo - Nineteenth-century Homes In A Midwestern Village Paperback Book

Kalamazoo : Nineteenth-century homes in a midwestern village Hardcover – January 1, 1976 by Peter J. Schmitt (Author), Balthazar Korab (Photographer) There is light yellowing in FEP of book. No other signs of previous use or wear. 10.8x8.9in, 240 pages.

Keeping a current inventory of historic buildings and sites was an early charge of the Kalamazoo Historic Preservation Commission. To do this, it brought in Western Michigan University professor and architectural historian Dr. Peter Schmitt to help. In 1971, Schmitt submitted a list of forty-eight buildings and one site to the Commission, having collected over 400 pages of research from newspapers, city directories, maps and tax information. That information formed the nucleus of Dr. Schmitt’s first book, Nineteenth-century Homes in a Midwestern Village. Funding came from the Preservation Commission, two local foundations and private donations, and the book was a Bicentennial project for Kalamazoo County. The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts hosted an exhibit of the book’s photographs from July through September of 1976.Nineteenth-century Homes… includes houses built between 1846 and 1915, is organized by architectural style, and came out two months after the photo exhibition. It was reprinted in 1978. Leading Detroit-based architectural photographer Balthazar Korab took the photographs. Kalamazoo architect, writer and photographer Norman Carver, Jr. designed the book, and Tim Kendall from Western Michigan University did several drawings.

Kalamazoo is a city in the southwest region of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Kalamazoo County. At the 2010 census, Kalamazoo had a population of 74,262. Kalamazoo is the major city of the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 335,340 in 2015. Kalamazoo is equidistant from Chicago and Detroit, being about 140 miles (225 kilometers) away from both. One of Kalamazoo's most notable features is the Kalamazoo Mall, an outdoor pedestrian shopping mall. The city created the mall in 1959 by closing part of Burdick Street to auto traffic, although two of the mall's four blocks have been reopened to auto traffic since 1999. Kalamazoo is home to Western Michigan University, a large public university, Kalamazoo College, a private liberal arts college, and Kalamazoo Valley Community College, a two-year community college.

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