West Main Hill Neighborhood

The West Main Hill neighborhood is a local historic district. It’s a unique part of the city with its naturalistic curvilinear land planning and layout, exceptional period revival houses, and association with Kalamazoo’s industrial, commercial, and social leaders.

Its early twentieth century suburban landscape and architecture is anchored by earlier grid planned streets with late nineteenth century homes. The product of a local businessman’s vision, the Henderson Park plat is the largest curvilinear plat in Kalamazoo and represents a very progressive approach to land development for its time. The houses lining its streets were homes of professional, civic, commercial, and industrial leaders, including business owners, professors, merchants, and other members of the important upper and middle class of Kalamazoo’s early twentieth century society. The houses and streetscapes create a park-like suburb, exclusive and expressive of the traditional values, romantic ideals, and concepts of status of the early twentieth century. Several buildings are architecturally notable as examples of their styles and type and the district is architecturally cohesive with a predominance of Colonial and Tudor Revival houses.

West Main Hill Neighborhood Association

• Meetings are held monthly on the third Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at St. Thomas More Church (421 Monroe St). 
• The Association's annual meeting is held in May. 
• You can subscribe to the West Main Hill newsletter to keep on top of all the activities and events going on in the neighborhood. Email westmainhillna@gmail.com to be added to the email list.  

Board President
Daniel Bair
westmainhillna@gmail.com