List of HSGL Summer Walking Tours – 2011 to 2023

List of HSGL Summer Walking Tours – 2011 to 2023
(HSGL-Historical Society of Greater Lansing, in Michigan)
There has been rain a couple of times, but not had any cancellations because of the weather yet.
Some were technically not in the Summer, but included anyway.
Compiled by me, Timothy Bowman.

1. Downtown Historic Churches (and Annual Meeting) = Thursday, June 16, 2011

2. Behind the Facades (and Annual Meeting) [South Washington Square] = Saturday. June 16, 2012

3. (#1) = Lost Lansing = Saturday, June 15, 2013
4. (#2) = Church & State = Saturday, July 20, 2013
5. (#3) = Old Town (before JazzFest) = Saturday, August 3, 2013
6. (#4) = Behind the Facades [South Washington Square] = Saturday, August 17, 2013
7. (#5) = 2nd Old Town (before BluesFest) = Saturday, September 21, 2013

8. (#1) = Behind the Facades, North = Saturday, June 14, 2014
9. (#2) = Downtown Disasters = Thursday, June 26, 2014
10. (#3) = Behind the Facades, South = Saturday, June 28, 2014
11. (#4) = Reo Town = Saturday, July 12, 2014
12. (#5) = Downtown Alleyways = Thursday, July 24, 2014
13. (#6) = Lost Lansing = Saturday, July 26, 2014
14. (#7) = Ladies of Lansing = Saturday, August 9, 2014
15. (#8) = Church & State = Saturday, August 23, 2014
16. (#9) = Old Town (before BluesFest) = Saturday, September 20, 2014

17. (#1) = A History of Lansing Community College = Saturday, June 6, 2015
18. (#2) = Growing Eastward on Michigan Ave. = Thursday, June 18, 2015
19. (#3) = Historic Homes in the Heart of Downtown = Thursday, July 9, 2015
20. (#4) = Downtown Lansing’s Favorite Old Restaurants = Saturday, July 25, 2015
21. (#5) = Lansing’s African-American West Side = Thursday, August 6, 2015
22. (#6) = MSU’s Historic West Circle Drive = Saturday, August 22, 2015
23. (#7) = Historic Eaton County Courthouse = Thursday, September 3, 2015
24. (#8) = Historic Ingham County Courthouse = Thursday, September 17, 2015

25. (#1) = Historic Reo Town = Saturday, June 18, 2016
26. (#2) = North Washington Ave. = Thursday, July 14, 2016
27. (#3) = Lansing’s Oak Park Neighborhood = Saturday, July 23, 2016
28. (#4) = Moores River Drive Architectural = Thursday, August 4, 2016
29. (#5) = MSU Sports Complex’s = Saturday, August 20, 2016

30. (#1) = Photographers of Downtown Lansing = Thursday, June 15, 2017
31. (#2) = Lansing’s Westside Neighborhood = Thursday, June 22, 2017
32. (#3) = Cherry Hill Neighborhood – A Forgotten Neighborhood = Thursday, July 13, 2017
33. (#4) = Capitol Car City – Downtown Lansing = Saturday, July 29, 2017
34. (#5) = Old East Campus – MSU = Saturday, August 19, 2017
35. (#6) = Beal Botanical Garden – A Historical Perspective = Thursday, August 24, 2017

36. (#1) = Germantown (near LCC) = Thursday, May 17, 2018
37. (#2) = Cherry Hill II = Thursday, June 14, 2018
38. (#3) = Michigan Ave. East Side (2000 block) = Saturday, July 14, 2018
39. (#4) = South Capitol Ave. = Saturday, July 28, 2018
40. (#5) = West Side Neighborhood II = Thursday, August 9, 2018
41. (#6) = Moores Park Neighborhood = Saturday, August 25, 2018

42. (#1) = Downtown Lansing (south downtown) = Wednesday, May 1, 2019
43. (#2) = MSU’s Sorority Row = Thursday, June 27, 2019
44. (#3) = Downtown Historic Churches = Saturday, July 27, 2019
45. (#4) = West Side African American Homes = Thursday, August 22, 2019

None in 2020 because of the Covid Pandemic.

46. (#1) = Historic Sycamore Street (Genesee Neighborhood) = Wednesday, August 18, 2021
47. (#2) = Lansing’s Back Alleys (downtown) = Wednesday, September 8, 2021

48. (#1) = Moores River Drive Historical (near Lansing Country Club) = Thursday, June 23, 2022
49. (#2) = North Washington and North Capitol (near Elderly Instruments) = Thursday, June 30, 2022
50. (#3) = Harry’s Bar & Durant Motors Centennial = Saturday, July 30, 2022
51. (#4) = Michigan Avenue and Museum Drive = Saturday, October 22, 2022

52. (#1) = Michigan School for the Blind & Female College = Thursday, May 18, 2023
53. (#2) = MSU’s “Sacred Places” (Beaumont Tower and NW part of campus) = Saturday, June 10, 2023
54. (#3) = MSU’s Beal Botanical Garden = Saturday, July 15, 2023
55. (#4) = Reo Town Walking Tour I = Saturday, August 12, 2023
56. (#5) = Reo Town Walking Tour II = Saturday, September 23, 2023

2024 – Coming Soon.

HSGL 2017 Summer Walking Tours Snapshots Collage-Lansing, MI

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