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The Ypsilanti Water Tower is a historic water tower in Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States. The tower was designed by William R. Coats and built as part of an elaborate city waterworks project that began in 1889. Located on the highest point in Ypsilanti, the tower was built in 1890 at a cost of $21,435.63 (equivalent to $663,528 in 2023).
The Ypsilanti Water Tower, built in 1889, [3] while not strictly speaking part of the campus, does border EMU on two sides; the north side of the water tower faces Welch Hall across Cross Street, while the east side of the tower faces a campus parking lot (formerly the site of the EMU gymnasium) across Summit Street. [5]
The Eastern Michigan University Historic District is set on an "L-shaped parcel" of land across from the Ypsilanti Water Tower (also on the NRHP). The EMUHD area contains Welch Hall, Starkweather hall, Sherzer Hall, and McKenny Hall.
1849 – Eastern Michigan University founded as Michigan State Normal School; 1858 – February 4, the Village of Ypsilanti reincorporated as a city; 1890 – Michigan's first interurban, the Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway, begins service; 1890 – The Ypsilanti Water Tower is completed
Friday was the 100th anniversary of the City of Monroe's Water Treatment Plant on East Front Street, which has been in operation since March 1, 1924. To mark the occasion, the city offered hourly ...
Established in 1984, the Eastern Michigan University Historic District is an L-shaped parcel [25] of land on the south side of campus across Cross Street from the Ypsilanti Water Tower. Several buildings since the university's founding have been deemed historically significant, and they were collectively listed on the National Register of ...
After the new Eastern Michigan University Student Center opened in 2006, McKenny closed for renovations and structural preservation work. The building is located across from the famous Ypsilanti Water Tower on Cross Street and is a contributing property to the Eastern Michigan University Historic District.
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