In This Place: Grand Rapids Federal Building, newspaper clippings, photographs and shelved objects trace the history of the former Grand Rapids Federal Building.  Yet, the objects (sealed off by a plastic covering and back-lit), provide only silhouettes and translucent suggestions that, like the building itself, are inaccessible – a mere allusion to the societal hub it once was.  

In This Place: Grand Rapids Federal Building, newspaper clippings, photographs and shelved objects trace the history of the former Grand Rapids Federal Building.  Yet, the objects (sealed off by a plastic covering and back-lit), provide only silhouettes and translucent suggestions that, like the building itself, are inaccessible – a mere allusion to the societal hub it once was.