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Lawrence and Chapin Building

Built in 1870 (Second Empire style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Lawrence and Chapin Building', also known as the Vermeulen Furniture Building, is a commercial building located at 201 North Rose Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Lawrence and Chapin Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Kalamazoo County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1870, Second Empire style.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 201 N. Rose St., Kalamazoo, 49007
  • When was it listed? May 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Kalamazoo MRA
  • City. Kalamazoo city
  • When was it built? 1870
  • Architectural style. Second Empire style
  • National Register reference number. 83000862 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

55 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Lawrence and Chapin Building between 2014 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use10
Natural4
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001533 - 2019
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO DPS 0078926 - 2018
5 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesOSHTEMO TOWNSHIP FD 1545 - 2018
31 August 2019Natural1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001522 - 2019
28 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001497 - 2019
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesCOMSTOCK TWP FIRE/RESCUE 0001310 - 2019
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO DPS 0006279 - 2019
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresMichigan Department of Natural ResourcesKALAMAZOO DPS 0006282 - 2019

Every fire recorded in Kalamazoo County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Lawrence and Chapin Building: 6 producers, 1 past producer. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Balkema Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bynre PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Consumers Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kalamazoo County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Peters Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Plant Number 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Ravine Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kalamazoo County

Storms near this property

51 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kalamazoo, the town this property stands in, in 51 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 36 thunderstorm wind, 13 hail, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1997Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo1 hurt, $500,000At 1020 PM EDT Sunday, May 18, a wet microburst hit the Americana Estates mobile home park in western Kalamazoo, Michigan. The mobile home park is located one mile northeast of the U.S. Highway 131/Stadium Street (Business I-94) interchange. One injury (a broken wrist) was caused when a microburst approximately 150 yards long and 50 yards wide struck the park. The first damage was noted on Stadium Street at the Burger King and Lee's Restaurant. Two light poles were downed at a Burger King restaurant. The Lee's Restaurant sign was broken with large fragments of 1 to 2 feet driven into the front siding of the restaurant. Some shingles and siding were also blown off. To the northeast, about a dozen mobile homes were pushed off foundations or received major roof damage. Two homes were completely destroyed, one of which was tied down. In the tied down mobile home, the wind ripped off the upper portions of the home, leaving only debris and the flooring. Five people were in the home at the time of the incident, one of whom was a teenage male injured with a broken wrist. The second destroyed trailer was not tied down and the back half of the trailer was broken and twisted onto its side. Debris was blown over 1/4 mile away, where a 2X4 was embedded at a downward angle into the side of a home.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$500,000Kalamazoo county emergency management reported scattered trees and power lines were blown down countywide.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$250,000The public reported that numerous power lines and trees were blown down in Milwood and fairly extensive wind damage was reported across portions of Kalamazoo county. A 59 mph wind gust was measured at Kalamazoo airport.
August 2002Flash FloodKalamazoo$200,000no account filed
May 2000HailKalamazoo$75,000no account filed
July 2018Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$50,000Kalamazoo county emergency management reported that numerous trees were blown down near Eastwood.
September 2000Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$50,000no account filed
July 2000Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$50,000no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$40,000Multiple trees and power lines were reported blown down in Kalamazoo by amateur radio.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$25,000WWMT in Kalamazoo reported that several power poles were blown down in and near the city.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$25,000Several trees and tree limbs were blown down.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$25,000A tree was blown down onto a house in Kalamazoo.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$20,000A severe thunderstorm blew a large tree down onto a house closing Westnedge Avenue in both directions between Parkwood and Inkster avenues.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$20,000Several trees were blown down in and around the city of Kalamazoo.
May 2004HailKalamazoo$20,000Trained spotters in Kalamazoo reported one half to three quarters inch diameter hail in Kalamazoo.
May 2004HailKalamazoo$20,000The public reported three quarters inch diameter hail at the corner of US-131 and D Avenue.
October 2002Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$20,000Kalamazoo area law enforcement reported several trees blown down in East Cooper and Portage.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$20,000no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$20,000no account filed
May 2004HailKalamazoo$15,000A trained spotter five miles west of Kalamazoo reported seven eighths inch diameter hail.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$15,000National Weather Service spotters reported trees and power lines downed in portions of the city of Kalamazoo. The peak wind gust reported by a trained spotter was 47 mph in Galesburg.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$10,000Several trees were blown down in the south side of the city of Kalamazoo.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$10,000Law enforcement in Kalamazoo reported numerous trees and limbs were blown down in Kalamazoo.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$10,000Several trees were blown down in Cooper township, about five miles north of Kalamazoo.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$10,000Trees and power lines downed in the city of Kalamazoo.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$10,000no account filed
October 1996Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$8,000no account filed
May 2005HailKalamazoo$5,000Three quarters inch diameter hail was reported two miles east of the city of Kalamazoo.
September 2001HailKalamazoo$5,000no account filed
June 1998Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo$2,500Kalamazoo Central Dispatch reported downed power lines scattered across the city of Kalamazoo.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-Several large branches down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-Several large trees down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-Paneling and insulation off a roof of a 8 story building peeled away in downtown Kalamazoo.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-Downed trees across Portage and Kalamazoo.
September 2012HailKalamazoo-Trained spotters reported that an isolated strong thunderstorm produced seven eighths inch diameter hail near Vicksburg and Kalamazoo.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-The Kalamazoo county road commission reported widely scattered tree damage across portions of the county.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-Trained spotters in Kalamazoo reported that estimated wind gusts up to 65 mph brought down power lines three miles west southwest of Kalamazoo. A measured wind gust of 54 mph was recorded at the Kalamazoo airport.
June 2008HailKalamazoo-The public reported one inch diameter hail near downtown Kalamazoo.
December 2007Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-A 58 knot wind gust was measured at the Kalamazoo airport.
June 1999HailKalamazoo-0.75" diameter hail was observed in Kalamazoo.
September 1998Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-Treees Knocked down from 2 miles west of Kalamazoo through downtown..
April 1995Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-Many large limbs and branches blown down.
July 1994HailKalamazoo-Several 12 to 18-inch diameter trees were blown down in a heavily wooded area.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-Several 12 to 18-inch diameter trees were blown down in a heavily wooded area.
July 1994Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-Thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph were reported at TV station WWMT and by a spotter in downtown Kalamazoo.
May 1998HailKalamazoo-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-no account filed
February 1997Flash FloodKalamazoo-no account filed
April 1994Thunderstorm WindKalamazoo-no account filed
April 1994HailKalamazoo-no account filed
April 1994HailKalamazoo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kalamazoo County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Masonic Temple Buildingunder 500 feet1980
Rickman Hotel0.1 miles1994
Haymarket Historic District (Boundary Increase II)0.1 miles2011
United States Post Office0.2 miles2017
Bronson Park Historic District0.2 miles1983
Michigan Central Depot0.2 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000862 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kalamazoo CountyAll 60 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.