current resident update

It has been the office of the law firm of Ferguson & Widmayer, P.C. since 1998.

Posted by admin on Fri 16 Sep 2011 09:11:04 AM EDT

From Wystan Stevens:

Actually, Dr. Chase returned from self-imposed exile in Minnesota only a year after selling out to Rice Beal and moving to Minneapolis, to operate an inn that Beal had given him in partial payment for the Ann Arbor printing building, the Courier newspaper, the recipe books and rights to all future publications using the name "Dr. Chase." (Beal even had an arrangement with the Ann Arbor Post Office that all mail addressed to "Dr. Chase, Ann Arbor" should be delivered to his -- Beal's -- P. O. Box.) Dr. Chase was at work on the second recipe book soon after his return to Ann Arbor -- too soon to have seen Beal get "rich" from any profits on the doctor's earlier work. Chase, with several other investors, also started another newspaper, the Ann Arbor Register, to compete with the Courier -- despite having signed a non-compete agreement as part of his contract with Beal. When Beal found out that Chase was going to publish a second edition of the Recipes, he commenced a lawsuit, which traveled all the way to the...

Actually, Dr. Chase returned from self-imposed exile in Minnesota only a year after selling out to Rice Beal and moving to Minneapolis, to operate an inn that Beal had given him in partial payment for the Ann Arbor printing building, the Courier newspaper, the recipe books and rights to all future publications using the name "Dr. Chase." (Beal even had an arrangement with the Ann Arbor Post Office that all mail addressed to "Dr. Chase, Ann Arbor" should be delivered to his -- Beal's -- P. O. Box.) Dr. Chase was at work on the second recipe book soon after his return to Ann Arbor -- too soon to have seen Beal get "rich" from any profits on the doctor's earlier work. Chase, with several other investors, also started another newspaper, the Ann Arbor Register, to compete with the Courier -- despite having signed a non-compete agreement as part of his contract with Beal. When Beal found out that Chase was going to publish a second edition of the Recipes, he commenced a lawsuit, which traveled all the way to the Michigan Supreme Court. Chase had to pull out of the newspaper deal to save the investments of his partners, who continued the weekly paper on their own. Beal won his lawsuit, and took over the rights to Chase's second book, but that didn't stop Chase from assembling a massive third volume (a "memorial edition"), which his son attempted to publish in Ohio, in 1886, a year after Chase's death. (Junius Beal asserted the rights to that volume as well, and won.) Chase's death in 1885 also should be mentioned in these paragraphs. Chase and both of the Beals are buried in Forest Hill Cemetery.

Posted by admin on Fri 12 Nov 2010 11:19:57 AM EST

Collectors' Cabinet

Ann Arbor Librarian Homer Chance, at left. Fabian Polcyn of the Ann Arbor Polish Alliance at right.

Posted by Wystan Stevens (guest) on Sun 04 Jul 2010 11:21:10 AM EDT

Correction

Please note the following correction: The Phi Delta Theta house (Ten Brook's home) was not designed by Albert Kahn (Bentley Historical Library staff)

Posted by amy on Tue 09 Mar 2010 12:57:32 PM EST

sun n sign

I really like this one. Great perspective.

Posted by Marykat on Mon 29 Jun 2009 10:52:45 AM EDT