A 1936 datestone for a county courthouse in Michigan.

DATESTONES ARE OCCASIONS TO RECALL the hit songs of the years the datestones display.

 

For instance, from 1936 we got "The Music Goes Round and Round" by Edward Farley and Mike Riley, performed by Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven, with vocals by Edythe Wright, which you could hear here or here if necessary. Me, I have never liked that song!

 

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In downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan, on March 7th, 2020, the Kalamazoo County Building (completed in 1937, surfaced in Mankato limestone and granite) at the southwest corner of West Michigan Avenue and South Rose Street.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Kalamazoo (7013819)

• Kalamazoo (county) (1002529)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• Art Deco (300021426)

• buff (color) (300263546)

• cornerstones (300002616)

• county courthouses (300005979)

• date stones (300374978)

• dimension stone (300070045)

• engraving (action) (300053829)

• granite (rock) (300011183)

• gray (color) (300130811)

• Mankato stone (300179301)

• polishing (300053867)

 

Wikidata items:

• 7 March 2020 (Q57396657)

• 1930s in architecture (Q16482516)

• 1936 in architecture (Q2811656)

• 1937 in architecture (Q2811680)

• Art Deco architecture (Q12720942)

• March 7 (Q2394)

• March 2020 (Q55018431)

• Southern Michigan (Q7570136)

• Treaty of Chicago (Q928799)

• West Michigan (Q3358100)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Courthouses—Michigan (sh94008985)

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