Dean House

Dean House is a Michigan historical marker in Grand Rapids, Kent County, dedicated 2025.

2350 Leonard Street NW, Grand Rapids

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In 1911 Irving Andrew Dean (1853-1927) and Olive Crane Kendall Dean (1853-1929) hired local architectural firm Frank P. Allen and Son to design this house. The ex-terior of Mayflower Place, as it is known colloquially, was built in the Classical Revival style to honor the couple’s colonial ancestors. The contrasting interior, finished in the Arts and Crafts style, is a nod to Olive’s brother, David Wolcott Kendall, who was a pioneering designer in Arts and Crafts furniture making. He became the namesake of the Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University.

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1853 · Map of the surveyed part of Michigan (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1854 · A map of the surveyed part of Michigan / by John Farmer ; engraved by S. Stiles & Co. (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
1873 · Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Colton's Michigan (1874) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
[Road map of southwestern Michigan, Grand Haven and Grand Rapids to Benton Harbor and… (University of Chicago Library, Mapping Chicagoland · CC BY-NC 4.0, used by permission)

Map of the surveyed part of Michigan, 1853, covering the location of Dean House, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map of the surveyed part of Michigan, 1853, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Dean House

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