323 South Division

323 South Division is the address of the Herkimer Hotel. Owner Samuel Jenks who came to Grand Rapids from Herkimer County, New York named his hotel for Nicholas Herkimer a famous revolutionary war hero and ancestor of Jenks’s wife. The Herkimer was built in two phases, with the southwest section of the building erected in 1895 and the northern/western sections added in 1907.

Architectural features

Jenks incorporated many splendid features in the hotel to provide gracious suroundings for hotel guests. Among these are:

• vaulted ceilings
• hand carved banisters
• classic woodwork
• two-story atria
• skylights

Location

warning.png"323 South [[Division Avenue|Division" cannot be used as a page name in this wiki. is located in the Heartside-Downtown neighborhood. Geographic coordinates are 42.957333° N, 85.668039° WLatitude: 42°57′26.399″N
Longitude: 85°40′4.94″W.

References

Portions of this post were originally written by Heather Ibrahim for the Heartside Mainstreet Program, reproduced with permission.