South Ionia Street School
SE 1/4 Section 36 Walker Twp
February 23, 1884
Leopold Samuel Godfroy, (infant)
To
The Board of Education
Liber 153 pages 466-7-8
Consideration, $583.33
Description
All the right, title and interest of said infant of the first part,
of, in, and to the following real estate in the City of Grand Rapids,
Lots 1, 2, and 18, of block 2 of A Campau's Second Addition CE
February 23, 1884
Lionna Addie May Sears, (formerly Godfroy) and Victor Chauncey Godfroy
(unmarried)
Liber 156 page 30
Consideration $1166.67
Description
The equal and undivided 2/3 of Lot 1, 2, and 18, block 2, of A. Campau's Second
AdditionCE
.Antoine Compau's 2nd Addition surveyed by John Tinkham 1870 for Antoine Campau
Street Name Changes: Withey was renamed Fifth in 1877 then renamed Franklin in 1912, Evergreen was renamed Seventh in 1886 then renamed Ryerson in 1912, Grant renamed Ionia in 1873.
1884 - First Ward, lot is 132' on Ionia x 198' on Fifth (Franklin), Value $8,500. $450 charge for moving a building. This description fits lots 1 and 18 of Block 2 of A Campau's 2nd Addition. New building constructed.
1885 - A wooden building containing four rooms, only one of which is occupied.
Collar and Greiner 1885 map does not show this school.
1887 - wooden building, four rooms, heated by stoves. Value $8500.
1888 - water closets in basement connected to city water and sewers.
1889 - Two stories with four rooms, heated by stoves.
1891 - First Ward
1892 - Twelfth Ward.
1895 Sanborn Fire Map shows this school at the SW corner of
Franklin and Ionia:
1899 - heated by furnaces.
1905 - Plumbing condemned
1909 - building has been condemned
1914 - proposal to abandon old wooden building with new school built on the Sheldon site.
1917 - I wish to renew my recommendation that the board of education utilize the old Ionia building as a school for these boys. I am sure that with a moderate expenditure of money a much better opportunity can be given to truant and incorrigible boys and that we shall be able to give them the right training at home instead of sending them to Lansing. I do not wish you to infer that our truant school has been a failure. But we have not done enough for these boys. During the years 1916-17, 82 boys have been enrolled in this school. Of course there were not 82 boys in this school at any one time. The population of this school ought to be a shifting one, the purpose being to take these boys form the regular schools when they become incorrigible and to train them as quickly as possible to be restored to the schools from which they came.
1921 - This is the only school described as frame and is in poor condition.
1921 Annual Report - Lots 1, 2, and 18 of Block 2 of Antoine campau 2nd Addition
1921 Annual Report - Lots 1, 2, and 18 of Block 2 of Antoine campau 2nd Addition
1928 - Closed
Ultimately replaced by Campau
1953 Sanborn Fire Map shows an empty lot with the address of 100 Franklin St SW and 800 Ionia Ave SW.
2005: First location Block 2 now Campau Park Public Housing.
From article School History
From Heading History and the City of GrandRapids
From web site: MyCityofGrandRapids.info