UNION CITY, MI (WTVB) – Jon & Sandy Silsby of DOVE Ag Services has donated funds needed to repair the metal on Union City’s iconic Dome and create the topper.
The Dome Committee would like to thank DOVE Ag Services and the community for funding this project.
They have been waiting for the cement work to be completed so they can finish things off.
The Dome is now located in Union City’s “Village Green”.
The Union City Society for Historic Preservation says the Dome was on top of the Watkins-Mason Building at North Broadway and Hammond for 100 years until 2003 when it was removed and the building was torn down for a planned grocery store.
But the plans for the store fell through and the site eventually became the “Village Green” in front of the Family Dollar store.
The whereabouts of the Dome were not known until August 2015 when it was found west of Three Rivers. The owner agreed to donate it back to the village a year later.
A Dome Project committee was formed to return the dome to its original site. An octagon gazebo now surrounds the Dome.
Money for the Dome’s restoration was raised through the Union City Centennial Trust.
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