Lakewood Farm, also known as the Getz Zoo, Getz Farm, or Lakewood Zoo, is a house and outbuildings located at 264 Lakeshore Avenue in Holland, Michigan. The property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

Getz purchased 70 acres of land from Miss Ida F. Fay on 12 August 1910, and thus began his amazing farm. On 13 September 1913, he bought another 64 acres from Hyo Bos and Abraham Peters, and on 29 November 1916, he purchased more acreage from Gerrit W. Kooyers making a total of 253 acres.

2021年1月4日 · Lakewood Farm, which grew to include 250 acres of Lake Michigan shoreline, began as a fruit and poultry farm, but achieved regional notoriety between 1915 to 1933 when owner George Getz, a Chicago coal magnate, developed it …

Lakewood Farm, also known as Getz Farm, was a zoo and garden on the shores of Lake Michigan near present-day Tunnel Park. Getz “started” the farm in 1910 when he purchased land from Ida F. Fay.

2024年8月4日 · The story of the impressive menagerie begins with a coal executive from Chicago named George Getz, who decided to escape the overcrowded city by building a farm. He settled his attention on a...

2020年12月5日 · Lakewood Farm — on north Lakeshore Avenue in Park Township — was once owned by coal executive George F. Getz and known widely as Getz Zoo. Getz arrived in Holland for the first time during...

This book reveals new information about the origin of the farm and portrays George Fulmer Getz as a nationally recognized industrialist and philanthropist who championed many of the Progressive...

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Getz Farm was a zoo owned by George Getz, founder of the Globe Coal Company. First, in 1931, George Getz offered to sell Getz Farm to Ottawa County for $625,000, which could be paid over 20 years.Slightly after that in 1932, Getz Farm charged an admission fee for the first time due to the great depression.

Lakewood Farm: The Private Zoo That the Public Loved is an article concerning the private zoo in Holland, Michigan, that was owned by Chicago coal merchant George Fulmer Getz and helped form the Illionois based Brookfiekd Zoo and John Ball Zoo of Grand Rapids, Michigan.