Detroit Observatory with classroom wing (photo by Bob Kalmbach) / HS1261
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- Title
- Detroit Observatory with classroom wing (photo by Bob Kalmbach)
- Date
- 1974
- Collection Title
- University of Michigan News and Information Services Photographs
- Collection Creator
- University of Michigan. News and Information Services. Photographs.
- Box / Drawer
- E-11
- Folder / Container / Volume
- Observatory
- Photographer / Artist
- Robert Kalmbach (UM News & Information Services)
- Notes
- Richard Harrison Bull, architect. Building completed in the summer of 1854. Residence wing for the director added in 1868, expanded in 1905-1906, and finally removed to facilitate the enlargement of Couzens Hall in 1954. East wing, with a larger dome and a more powerful telescope, begun in 1908 and completed in 1909; torn down in 1976. Named "The Detroit Observatory of the University of Michigan" until 1931 when it was changed to "The Observatory of the University of Michigan." In 1999, the name was officially changed to "The University of Michigan Detroit Observatory."
- Subjects
- Observatory (University of Michigan)
- University of Michigan--Buildings
- Astronomical observatories--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Universities & colleges--Michigan--Ann Arbor
- Item Number
- HS1261
- Scan Source
- Photo Print
- Repository
- Bentley Historical Library
- Date Added/Updated
- 2016-03-12 06:06:32
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- 5749 x 4605
- File Size
- 2 MB
- Record
- HS1261
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"Detroit Observatory with classroom wing (photo by Bob Kalmbach); HS1261." In the digital collection Bentley Historical Library: Bentley Image Bank. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhl/x-hs1261/hs1261. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 01, 2024.