Ann Arbor Observed: Selections from Then and Now

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Contents Introduction 1 Public Buildings and Institutions 4 The 1838 Jail 4 The County Poorhouse 8 The Private Hospital Era 11 Ann Arbor’s Carnegie Library 24 Red Howard, Small-Town Cop 27 The Farmers’ Market 31 The University of Michigan 39 The Detroit Observatory 39 The Remarkable Legacy of Francis Kelsey 44 The Botanical Gardens 53 When Football Players Danced the Cancan 57 Lane Hall 66 Inglis House 70 Transportation 74 Orange Risdon’s 1825 Map 74 The Michigan Central Depot 81 Ann Arbor’s “Other” Railroad 84 Ann Arbor’s Streetcars 91 109 Catherine—Car Age Services 95 The Ann Arbor Cooperative Society 99 Industry 102 The Rise and Fall of Allen’s Creek 102 Henry Krause’s Tannery 110 The Athens Press on Main Street 113 439 Fifth Street: From Drinking Spot to Play Yard 118 The Artificial Ice Company 121 The West Side Dairy 124 Downtown Ann Arbor 128 L. W. Cole and the Michigan Argus 128 John Haarer Photography Studio 134 Hoelzle’s Butcher Shop and Metzger’s Restaurant 140 Prochnow’s Dairy Lunch 145 Justin Trubey and the Ice Cream Trade 148 Recreation and Culture 152 Otto’s Band 152 Ann Arbor’s Municipal Beach 157 The Roy Hoyer Dance Studio 161 The Broadway Bridge Parks 166 Cinema’s First Century 173 Social Fabric and Communities 186 The Underground Railroad in Ann Arbor 186 Dixboro 202 Delhi Village 207 The Story of the Schwaben Halle 211 A Tale of Two Lakes 219 Architecture 227 Cobblestone Houses in Washtenaw County 227 The Remarkable History of the Kempf House 232 Ann Arbor’s Oldest Apartments 236 Alden Dow’s Ann Arbor 245 Frank Lloyd Wright in Ann Arbor 260 ...