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Front view, with 400 Maynard St in the foreground. Tower Plaza is a high-rise condominium building in Ann Arbor, Michigan, located at 555 East William Street.The building was first proposed in 1965, and opened in 1969. [2]
Maynard's property encompassed most of what is now the historic district. The new section attracted German immigrants who had settled in and near Ann Arbor. In the years following the Civil War , the local economy boomed, with industries starting up and attracting workers, many of whom filled up the lots in Maynard's subdivision.
Nickels Arcade is a commercial building located at 326-330 South State Street in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1] The building is notable as perhaps the only remaining example in Michigan of a free-standing commercial arcade building of a type that was popularized by the Cleveland ...
The Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti Street Railway, Michigan's first interurban, served the city from 1891 to 1929. [27] Amtrak, which provides service to the city at the Ann Arbor Train Station, operates the Wolverine train between Chicago and Pontiac, via Detroit. The present-day train station neighbors the city's old Michigan Central Depot, which ...
Maynard was born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. [citation needed] His father Ezra Maynard was one of the earliest settlers in Ann Arbor.[1]Maynard had been Ann Arbor's biggest land developer, a member and organizer in 1836 of the Ann Arbor Land Company, which acquired the former Henry Rumsey farm east of town, conveying 40 acres thereof to the newly formed State of Michigan as the site of ...
Main Street in Ann Arbor c. 1908 President Grover Cleveland at the Ann Arbor station in 1892, with a crowd that included Mayor William Doty and University President James B. Angell Since the university's establishment in the city in 1837, the histories of the University of Michigan and Ann Arbor have been closely linked. [ 27 ]
W.S. Butterfield Theaters operated five theaters in Ann Arbor in 1940, [2] including the Majestic Theater on Maynard Street, converted in 1907 from a roller rink. Butterfield planned to renovate the Majestic, but city officials denied permission for the work, prompting the construction of the State.
The Blake Transit Center (BTC) is a major public transit station in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is the main hub for TheRide, serving as the terminus and transfer point for 17 Ann Arbor-based routes in the system's hub-and-spoke bus network. [1] It also serves as a transfer point for multiple intercity bus services.