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Council forms study committee to consider removing landmark status for former city greenhouses
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Holland City Council voted unanimously Jan. 7 to appoint a study committee to evaluate removing the landmark designation for the former city greenhouses after their November 2025 demolition; staff said a 1929 tropical house is slated for reconstruction and relocation to Centennial Park but the timing is not finalized.
HOLLAND, Mich. — The Holland City Council voted unanimously Thursday to appoint a study committee that will prepare a report evaluating whether to remove the landmark designation from the former city greenhouses, which were demolished in November 2025.
Anna Scudder, the city’s municipal planner, told the council the greenhouses were constructed in phases between 1911 and 1950 and were added to the city’s list of landmark properties in 1999. She said the structures had been vacated in 2019 and deteriorated to the point that the Historic District Commission approved a certificate of appropriateness and a…
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