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Ypsilanti is the subject of Sufjan Stevens' song, "For The Widows in Paradise, For The Fatherless in Ypsilanti", on his 2003 album Michigan. A portrait of jazz guitarist Randy Napoleon, painted by his grandmother, Fay Kleinman, is part of the permanent art collection of the Ypsilanti District Library.
Ypsilanti Charter Township is a charter township of Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 55,670 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] The city of Ypsilanti is mostly surrounded by the township, but the two are administered autonomously.
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Water Street is a brownfield in Ypsilanti, Michigan which used to be a site of various industries and businesses. [1] In 1999, under the leadership of Cheryl Farmer, the City of Ypsilanti officially embarked on a project to redevelop the area to improve the general image of Ypsilanti and increase its tax revenue.
Prospect Park is a 9.5 acre park in the northeast corner of Ypsilanti, Michigan, and is the oldest park in Ypsilanti. [1] This park, which was originally a cemetery, is the home of a retired coastal defense cannon from Maine, and is currently the home of the restored Luna Lake.
Founded in 1999, the Michigan ElvisFest is an annual two-day festival held in July in Riverside Park and Depot Town. Established to replace the previous Ypsilanti-based music festival, the Bob Marley Festival, ElvisFest has grown to be the largest Elvis festival in North America, attended by approximately 10,000 fans each year. [38]
The Ypsilanti Historic District is a historic district located along several blocks on each side of the Huron River in the center of Ypsilanti, Michigan.The original portion of the district was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978; [1] additions to the district were nationally listed in 1989.
That year, Butterfield bought out the nearby Wuerth Theatre, and gained a near-monopoly on the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti cinema market. [13] In the 1940s, the Martha Washington was the Ypsilanti area's premier theatre, receiving the newest pictures and charging higher prices. [14] Florence Wilson Signor died in 1942 in Bradenton, Florida.