Old Central School — Attraction in Grand Rapids

One of our best small town attractions for the architecture alone. Inside you will find folksy shops and eateries. Quaint little stores, sitting in historic little classrooms. Its a fun stop and a cant miss for tourists. Its a place of history you interact with as you walk through it and envision the good old days of polio and children being beat with yardsticks. Laugh a little but seriously enjoy all that history has to offer. Its not just horse drawn sleighs of children in the winter its poor kids walking in the snow in shoes a size to small. Its American grit and can do attitudes that built something...

Shops? Art gallery? OK, there was a photographer studio, but that's all the art I saw. Everything was closed on Monday afternoon except for a salon and some empty classrooms. Change the description or the name of the place. It's not much of a tourist attraction for being a historic landmark. Back when it had antique shops and it was the Judy Garland museum, it was awesome. This is just boring now. Very sad. On the plus side,...

I love seeing buildings such as old schools, turned into something useful rather than be left abandoned. It has character in the architecture itself, with added quality in the boutiques that...