The Netherlands Museum Historical Marker - Holland, MI
N 42° 47.195 W 086° 06.418
16T E 573041 N 4737502
This historical marker stands outside the Kremers House at 8 E 12th St in Holland, MI. The house was built in 1889 and served as the Kremers residence, a city hospital, a college fraternity, and a museum.
Waymark Code: WM3716
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 02/20/2008
Views: 49
The historical marker reads:</B
"Holland's city hospital opened here in 1919 with a capacity of twenty-two patients. The operating room was located on the upper level. A stable at the rear provided a clinic and nurses' residence. In 1928 the hospital moved into a new facility. The Knickerbocker Fraternity of Hope College rented the building from 1929 to 1938. The Netherlands Museum, founded in 1937 to interpret the rich heritage of the founders and the dynamic epic of this community, opened here on May 10, 1940."
The Michigan Historical Sites web site adds:
"Dr. and Mrs. Henry Kremers commissioned local builder George Dalman to design and construct this house for them. Completed in 1889, the modified Elizabethan-style dwelling was built primarily of native stone and locally manufactured brick. A prominent doctor, Kremers was elected mayor of the city in 1889. After his death in 1914, his wife, Alice Van Zwaluwenberg-Kremers, lived here until 1917, when she sold the house to the city of Holland for use as its first city hospital."
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