Howell Area Archives Digital Archive

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  • HCDL-ngp-B002-02-008_u.jpg

    This photograph was included in the First National Bank Calendar Photos.   In David Finney's book, "Images of America: Howell", he notes that this photograph was taken Thursday, December 6, 1917 at the Howell Post Office on North Michigan Avenue, Howell Michigan.

    The persons, staff at the Howell Post Office, were identified as, from left to right, W.H.S. Wood, Ross Hildbrandt, Fred Dean, Kenneth Granger, Arthur Wiilard, unknown, Bird Hight, and Sarah Cooper.
  • HCDL-gn-Teeple-N037_u.jpg

    This is a photograph of the interior of the N.E. Miner and Sons General Store, Cohoctah, Michigan.  It was included in the 1976 Howell Bicentennial History Book.  The store owner, Norris E. Miner, is on the right, and to the left is long time clerk, George Killin.  The store also housed the Cohoctah Post Office for many years.  Rolland Miner was postmaster from 1919 to 1950.  In 1944, the store was sold, and the post office moved across the street to what was known as the bank building.
  • HCDL-ngp-D004-01-0144_u.jpg

    This photograph is of the interior of the Midget Sandwich Shop, 319 East Grand River Avenue, Howell, Michigan, and was taken as part of documentation for the R/UDAT Study, 1984.  In view, taken during the R/UDAT Walking Tour is the Midget Sandwich Shop; the persons in the photograph are employees of the U.S.P.S., Howell Post Office, Don Sredzinski and Ed Latson. 

    In 1983, the Howell Area Chamber of Commerce applied for a R/UDAT (Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team) study, an American Institute of Architects program that brought a team of professionals to the city for a four-day period to study Howell's downtown, its ability to compete for regional shopping, and to make recommendations for improvements to re-vitalize the city.  The team, in 1984, during the study took photographs, interviewed people, held forums, and in the end provided an outline of strategies.

    American Institute of Architects Regional/Urban Design Assistance Team
  • HCDL-ngp-P009-01-0002_u.jpg

    U.S. Post Office Howell, Michigan 1926
    Southwest corner of Sibley and Michigan Avenue
  • HCDL-ngp-P009-01-0003_u.jpg

    This series of photographs were taken on October 22, 1936 at the Ceremony for the Laying of the Cornerstone for the new Post Office in Howell, Michigan.  It was located at 123 South Walnut Street.

    The Howell Post Office was the first Federal building in Livingston County.  The local committee, consisting of Postmaster Alfred H. Pfau, W.W. Blackney, Congressman of the 6th District of Flint, and Charles P. Adams, Mayor of Howell, had requested the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Michigan to lay the cornerstone according to the ritual of the Order.  The Howell Commandery #28, Knights Templar, paraded from the Howell Lodge to the scene of the ceremony.    The line of march proceeded east on Sibley to Court, north on Court to Grand River Avenue, west on Grand River to Walnut and south on Walnut to the Post Office site.

    A half-day holiday was declared by Mayor Adams for the city of Howell.   The names of the persons in the photographs are unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-P009-01-0013_u.jpg

    This is a photograph taken at the intersection of South Walnut Street, and West Sibley Street, Howell, Michigan.  There stood a barn on site of proposed new Post Office, 1935.

    The address of the new post office was 123 South Walnut Street, Howell, Michigan.
  • HCDL-ngp-P009-01-0014_u.jpg

    A photo taken of the Howell Post Office on Walnut Street on the final day of its operation.
  • HCDL-ngp-P009-01-0015_u.jpg

    This group of photographs were taken at the Howell Post Office when it was located at 123 South Walnut Street, Howell, Michigan.  There are three interior shots, and a fourth of the loading dock on the east side of the building.

    The date of the photographs and names of the persons in the photos are unknown.
  • HCDL-ngp-P009-01-0018_u.jpg

    A photo of workers in the Howell Post Office located on Walnut Street. From left to right, Myron Rogers, unknown, and Jerry Roberts.

    Phot taken circa 1965-1967. 
  • HCDL-ngp-P009-01-0022_u.jpg

    A photo of Howell post office workers in the old Walnut Street location. The two men on the bottom right of the photo are Alfred Pfau (left) and Myron Rogers (right). All others are unknown. 

    Photo taken circa 1965-1967.
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