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The large, box-like first floor was largely eliminated. Added to the entrance on Constitution Avenue were a pond, garden, and bridge, so that visitors would have to "cross over the water" like slaves did when they came to America. [55] The Smithsonian estimated in February 2012 that museum would to open in 2015. [56]
The former Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building on Central Campus, looking towards the northeast. The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, formerly known as the Exhibit Museum of Natural History, began in the mid-19th century and expanded greatly with the donation of 60,000 specimens by Joseph Beal Steere, a U-M alumnus, in the 1870s.
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-10674-0. Holtzer, Susan., ed. (1990). Special to the Daily: The 1st 100 Years of Editorial Freedom at the Michigan Daily. Caddo Gap Press. ISBN 0-9625945-2-0. Peckham, Howard H. (1994). The Making of The University of Michigan 1817–1992. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
The University of Michigan, founded in 1817–twenty years before Michigan's statehood–is the state's oldest university [1] [2] and remained the only university in the state until the 20th century, when Detroit College became the University of Detroit in 1911 and Wayne State University achieved "university" status in 1933 following the ...
The original Wells Hall at Michigan Agricultural College, a precursor to Michigan State University, was built in 1877 as a dorm that housed 130 students. A fire destroyed the building in 1905 and ...
The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest institution of higher education in the state. The University of Michigan is one of the earliest American research universities and is a founding member of the Association of American ...
The first time Ohio and Michigan nearly came to blows wasn't on the gridiron, as it turns out, but on a battlefield. One of the most heated rivalries in college football dates back to the 1800s ...
University of Michigan campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan Coordinates 42°16′37″N 83°44′15″W / 42.27694°N 83.73750°W / 42.27694; -83.73750 ( University Of Michigan Central