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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2BV7_the-michigan-ross-bur-oak_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
Conserving our living history For 200 years or more, a majestic bur oak and its companions grew on a site that eventually became home to the Ross School of Business. But when the school took on a new construction project in 2014, concerns arose a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2265_social-and-political-change-on-south-university_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
When local merchants began the Ann Arbor Art Fair in July 1960, South University catered to both townspeople and students. During 40 years of social and political change, the fair grew into a city-wide extravaganza. In the twentieth century, as fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2255_east-university-avenue-campus-boundary_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
This plaque marks East University Avenue, which served as the eastern boundary of the original forty acres of land deeded to the State of Michigan in 1837 by the Ann Arbor Land Company for the location of the University of Michigan.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2227_first-medical-buildings_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
The original Medical Building was built in 1850 on the current site of Randall Laboratory, and provided the principal space for lectures, recitations, anatomical dissections, faculty offices, and laboratories from 1850 to 1903. Clinical diagnosis,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM221Y_simpson-memorial-institute_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
The Thomas Henry Simpson Memorial Institute for Medical Research combined medical research and patient care activities, provided research experience for medical and postgraduate students, direct care to its patients on the third floor, and consult…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WAU_michigan-summer-symposium-in-theoretical-physics-historical_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
This plaque honors the Michigan Summer Symposium in Theoretical Physics, 1928-1941, under the leadership of Harrison Randall. During this period virtually every world-renowned physicist lectured at the symposium, which played a critical role in he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WA6_the-denison-archway-historical_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
So named in honor of him who suggested the idea of constructing it Professor Charles Simeon Denison, for forty-two years teacher of stereotomy, mechanism, and drawing in the University of Michigan. This tablet is placed here by his colleagues a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W8H_engineering-at-michigan-historical_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
The first public university in America to award degrees in engineering, the University of Michigan was among the earliest institutions of higher education to offer programs in aeronautical engineering, chemical engineering, computer engineering, e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W6S_law-quadrangle-historical_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
University of Michigan alumnus William W. Cook (1880, 1882law) believed that the character of the legal profession depended on the character of Law Schools, and that the character of the Law Schools forecasted the future of America. In support of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RI9_william-l-clements-library_Ann-Arbor-MI.html
William L. Clements (1882, LLD 1934hon) was a regent of the University of Michigan (1910-1933) whose life-long avocation was the collection of books, maps and related materials on American History from 1492 to 1800. In 1922, he donated to the univ…
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