140 Years of Family Craftsmanship
Our family started painting in Muskegon 140 years ago, when Joseph Vallier, a carriage painter, immigrated to Muskegon, MI from Montreal, Canada. Today we are one of the largest painting contractors in West Michigan.
- 1881
Joseph Vallier immigrated to Muskegon, MI from Montreal, Canada in 1881. He took a job as a painter and decorator for Hutchinson Carriage Decorating Company.
- 1891
Joseph purchased the carriage painting company in 1891 and his son AJ dropped out of school to assist with the business. It was renamed "J. Vallieres and Son."
- 1903
Joseph died in 1903, and with horse-drawn carriages having been replaced by automobiles, AJ closed the carriage painting business and went to work as a painter for Panyard & Company.
- 1924
AJ started his own residential and commercial painting company, A.J. Valliere and Sons, in 1924.
- 1930
By 1928 the company was successful but fell on hard times during the Great Depression. The company remained afloat with the help of AJ's daughter Nanette and three sons, Gerard, Edmund, and Wilfred.
- 1940
The 1940s saw the economy turning around, and A.J. Valliere & Sons benefited from the good times, becoming the largest painting company in Muskegon County.
- 1942
AJ died in 1942, and his wife Edwidge became the owner of the painting business.
- 1960
The business was transferred to AJ's sons, Gerard and Edmund, in the early 1960s.
- 1977
Edmund's sons, Louis and Danny, began running the business. Louis hired his son David, and son-in-law Mike Lawie, in 1977.
- 1979
Louis and Danny became the sole owners of the business in 1979.
- 1986
In the late 1980s, Louis' health began failing, and he encouraged David, his daughter Shelley, and her husband Mike to start their own company.
- 1987
Mike, Shelley, and David started Dimension Four Painting, Inc. in 1987. The name "Dimension Four" was a nod to the four prior generations of painters.
- Today
Dimension Four Painting is one of the largest commercial painting companies in West Michigan, currently managed by Mike & Shelley's son, Chad — a 6th generation painter.
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