101 N. Ann Arbor St. / Saline Post Office
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About this home
- Historic Name
- Saline Post Office
- USGS Map
- Saline Quadrangle
- Common Name
- I'll Fix Dinner Tonight
- Street and No.
- 101 N. Ann Arbor St.
- Municipal Unit
- Saline
- County
- Washtenaw
- Original Usage
- Post Office
- Present Usage
- Commercial
- Ownership
- Larder, Dr. John S.
About this photograph
- Photo Negative No.
- 20:18
- Photo Date
- January, 1994
- Photo View
- East facade taken facing west
About the construction
- Description
- One story, red brick building. There is a thin band of plain concrete along cornice line. Recessed entry on south and north ends of storefronts. Two large windows beside each door with a strip of windows above. There is another large window in the recess. 101, the barber shop, has a projecting sign from above the door, and a traditional barber pole alongside the door. 103, "I'll Fix Dinner Tonight" has an awning which obscures the windows.
- Date Of Construction
- 1916
- Context
- Completed shortly after the new Library at 105 N. Ann Arbor St., this was the first building built specifically to function as a Post Office. Both sides of the building were used as the Post Office. It was then that locked boxes came into general use for the first time. The Post Office was open on Sunday morning when rural patrons coming in to church could pick up their mail. The Post Office remained in this building until 1939.
- Bibliographic Reference
- City Directories: 1878, 1894, 1899, 1912, 1916, 1920, 1926, 1941, 1945. Assessor's files: 1947 and current; U.S. Census: 1910, 1920. Sanborn Maps: 1888, 1893, 1899, 1912, 1921; Saline Observer: February 16, 1939; Proctor, "Old Saline Village".
- Form Source
- MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF STATE KG 52
About this record
- Survey Date
- May, 1994
- Surveyor
- K. Glynn & S. Kosky
- Recorder Date
- April, 1994
- Card No.
- 52
Technical Details
- Collection
- Saline Historic Homes
- Image Size
- 2440 x 1672
- File Size
- 543 KB
- Record
- SL0101
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sdlhomes/x-sl0101/sl010103.tif
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"101 N. Ann Arbor St.; Saline Post Office." In the digital collection Saline Historic Homes. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sdlhomes/x-sl0101/sl010103.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024.