Mason & Kahn, architect. 1906-1939: Part of Catherine St. Hospitals. Built as and run as Psychopathic Hospital. 1939-1944: Known as "East Hospital." 1944-1965: Known as Beal Residence. Torn down 1965
"A research special seat (to stimulate an automobile seat) built to research comfort factors for average size people. Picture taken about 1935-1940. Person in seat was Eileen Lay, daughter of Prof. Lay." Jay A. Bolt, Oct. 20, 1990. The Automotive Engineering Laboratory was renamed the Walter E. Lay Auto Lab.
Folder: Surgery and anatomy classes -- Amphitheater views
Photographer / Artist
Gibson, J. Jefferson
Notes
On verso: Alice Hamilton in front row bench, third from left
Copyright
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UBImusD13. Folder: Campus Buildings. Alexander G. Ruthven Building. no. 134
Notes
Albert Kahn Associates, architect. Puma sculpture by Carleton Watson Angell, 1940; black terrazzo. Building opened in 1928 and originally called the University Museums Building, which housed four museums: Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, Museum of Paleontology, Museum of Zoology, and University Herbarium. Later housed the Museum of Natural History, which was officially created in 1956. Renamed the Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building in 1968.
James Nelson Martin and Charles Guerardde Nancrede giving an amphitheatre clinic
Date
1893
Collection Title
Medical School (University of Michigan) records
Collection Creator
University of Michigan. Medical School.
Box / Drawer
136.
Folder / Container / Volume
Folder: Surgery and anatomy classes -- Amphitheater views
Copyright
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York and Sawyer, architect. The Martha Cook Building was erected as a residence for women in 1915, a gift of William Wilson Cook ('80) in honor of his mother, Martha Walford Cook. Garden replanted in 1921 by Samuel Parsons of New York City.
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." Known at various times as Detroit Observatory, Campus Observatory, Old Observatory. [Observatory from northwest with pine trees and summer garden]. On verso: A.L. Colton, Photographer, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Views of the State University a Specialty.
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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." Known at various times as Detroit Observatory, Campus Observatory, Old Observatory.
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." Known at various times as Detroit Observatory, Campus Observatory, Old Observatory. On verso: Photographed in 1887 by Colton of '89
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Buildings and Grounds Dept. (University of Michigan), architect. Built in 1918 with 25 beds. Also called Dermatology Ward. Located east of Glen, downhill and behind westernmost hospital building. Torn down in 1932.
Richard Harrison Bull, architect. Detroit Observatory 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." The Students' Observatory was erected in 1878. It was located to the south of the Detroit Observatory. In 1908, it was moved to a different location to make room for construction of the east wing of the Detroit Observatory. On verso: J.M.S. March 31, 1888. In another hand: John Martin Schaeberle. Acting Director of Observatory
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Architects are Albert Kahn of Detroit, in consultation with William Warner Bishop, the first head librarian of the new building. Built between 1916 and 1920 on the site of the old library. The new building incorporated two fireproof book stacks built in 1898 from the older building. Additional stacks were built at right angles to old stacks between 1916-1918 by Selden Breck contractors. In 1918 the old library was demolished and a new front (north facade) was attached to the 1893 stacks and the stacks built in 1916-1917. This was referred to as the (New) General Library until the south stack addition was built in 1967-1970 and the entire library building was named the Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library. [West stack. Photograph mounted on linen. From construction photo album received by Buildings and Grounds]
Detroit Observatory, director's residence, and classroom addition, as seen from UM "Old Main" Hospital
Date
1921 (ca.)
Collection Title
University of Michigan Photographs Vertical File
Collection Creator
Bentley Historical Library (collector)
Box / Drawer
UBImusD13
Folder / Container / Volume
258
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." [Same as na 11,277, BL001686].
