Culver hardware fire, 1957
The entire upper floor of the Culver hardware store at 120 South Main Street was lost in a three-hour, $60,000, April, 1957 blaze, which The Culver Citizen describes as interrupting the “traditional”...
View ArticleLake Shore Lanes fire, Oct. 21, 1978
[See image gallery at www.culverahs.com] On Oct. 21, 1978, Lake Shore Lanes bowling alley and the coffee shop accompanying, located at 620 Lake Shore Drive, burned to the ground in a spectacular fire....
View ArticleGignilliat cottage fire, March, 1918
[See image gallery at www.culverahs.com] Then known as the Gignilliat cottage — for Culver Military Acaemy superintendent L.R. Gignilliat — and later as the Superintendent’s Home, all but the first...
View ArticleCMA Trunk Room fire, 1918
[See image gallery at www.culverahs.com] Culver Military Academy’s Trunk Room began its life as theTabernacle for the chautauqua hotel Henry Harrison Culver built at the site of today’s Main Barracks,...
View ArticleCulver fire station, 1990s-2000s
Images from the mid-1990s to the 2000s of the Culver fire station at 504 E. Lake Shore Drive. The station building, earlier an International Harvester sales building, replaced the fire station at...
View ArticleManor Market fire, 1985
On Dec. 28, 1985, the Maxinkuckee Village lost one of the last vestiges of its formerly active business community, the Manor Market at the northeast corner of East Shore Drive and 18B Road, to fire....
View ArticleCulver firemen train at the Culver Inn, pre-demolition
Prior to the 1991 demotion of the Culver Inn, on the campus of Culver Academies, members of the Culver fire department were given permission to utilize the delapidated building for training purposes,...
View ArticleTenderloins, Bowling, and 50 years of Culver Memories: Dewitt Family’s...
[See image gallery at www.culverahs.com] By Jeff Kenney: Citizen editor Not long ago, Jim Dewitt was in the Culver post office when the topic of the beloved tenderloins he served at the Lake Shore...
View ArticleAvailable Now: Historical Reproduction Note Cards
Check out our NEW set of 8 note cards! Send out Thank-You’s or Forget-Me-Not’s in high style with vintage images from Culver’s diverse history. They were commissioned by the Antiquarian and Historical...
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