ÿþ<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>G-43-1 Stroh Home</TITLE> <STYLE type=text/css>BODY { SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR: #ecb5c0; SCROLLBAR-TRACK-COLOR: #752949; SCROLLBAR-BASE-COLOR: #752949; scrollbar-dark-shadow-color: #752949 } </STYLE> <BGSOUND src="catchanangel.mid" loop=infinite HIDDEN="true" AUTOSTART="true"> </HEAD> <BODY text=#cd759c vLink=#cd759c aLink=#cd759c link=#cd759c bgColor=#550127 background=stroh9bk4.jpg> <CENTER> <TABLE borderColor=#8d3559 cellSpacing=0 borderColorDark=#350518 cellPadding=32 width="92%" background=stroh9bk2.jpg border=2> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"> <CENTER> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" background=stroh9bk5.jpg border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"> <CENTER> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" background=stroh9bk4.jpg border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"> <CENTER> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" background=stroh9bk5.jpg border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"> <CENTER> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=20 width="100%" background=stroh9bk4.jpg border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"> <CENTER> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" background=stroh9bk5.jpg border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"> <CENTER> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=4 width="100%" background=stroh9bk4.jpg border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"> <CENTER> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="100%" background=stroh9bk5.jpg border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"> <CENTER> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" background=stroh9bk4.jpg border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width="100%"> <center> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="75%" background="stroh9bk4.jpg"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <P><BR> <CENTER><IMG height=275 alt=Roses src="02-stroh-house.jpg" width=374><BR> <IMG src="stroh-words.jpg"></CENTER> <P align=center><FONT face=veranda><FONT color=#cd759c><FONT size=2> <B>The Stroh House - Built before 1896<BR> 710 River Road <BR> Coldwater, Michigan<BR> <BR><p align="left"> G-4.3-1 Anna Flandermeyer (1861-1925) Granddaughter of Anna Gruner Adolph (Anna Adolph married Flandermeyer and died at age 18). Anna Flandermeyer married Emil Stroh about 1884. Emil's brother ran the very successful Stroh Brewing business in Detroit and Emil established the Wolverine Portland Cement Company in the southern Michigan area and in Indiana where a town was named after him. This house was built as their summer home. <BR> <BR> Anna was the first president of the Centennial Reading Circle, a study and self improvement society. The organizational meeting was held in this house in the fall of 1896. There were 36 members, many of whom were members of the Gruner - Adolph Family. After Anna died in 1925, her daughter, Norma continued her mother's interest in the Circle. The Golden Anniversary of its founding was hosted by Norma on October 31, 1946 in this home. A plaque honoring the Centennial Circle is now on the Stroh Mausoleum plot.<BR> <BR> After Anna died, Emil, being very wealthy, had a beautiful Mausoleum built in Oak Grove Cemetery where he and Anna and their children and Norma's children are interred. There is one crypt left for Norma's surviving daughter, Ann Hansen. <BR></P> <p align=center></P> <center><img src="G43-1B-stroh-mausoleum.jpg"><BR>The Stroh Mausoleum<BR> Oak Grove Cemetery <BR></center><BR> <P align=center>&nbsp;</P> <p align="center"><img src="house-horse.jpg"height=200 width=300><BR> The Stroh Home about 1910<BR> (Before the turret was removed)<BR></p> <P align=center><EMBED src=catchanangel.mid width="85" height="35" AUTOSTART="true" LOOP="false"></P> <P align=center><BR><font color="#7b5700"> <center><table border="3" cellspacing="1" width="80%"> <tr> <td width="30%" align="center" align="top"><font face="veranda"><font size=2><A href="/1/houses/1/randall.html"><B>G-45-6 The Randall Home</B></A></font></td> <td width="30%" align="center" align="top"><font face="veranda"><font size=2><A href="/1/menu_2.html"><B>Gruner Heritage Menu</B></A></font></td> </td></tr></table> </center> <P align=center>&nbsp;</P><BR><BR><BR> <CENTER> <TABLE borderColor=#8d3559 cellSpacing=2 borderColorDark=#330b20 cellPadding=0 width="90%" background=stroh9bk4.jpg border=1> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <CENTER><FONT size=1>(c)2003-4-5 ncu/msz</CENTER> <P></P> <P><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE><FONT face=Verdana,Arial size=2> <P><BR></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR></P></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER> <P><BR></P></FONT></FONT></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER> <P></P></BODY></HTML>