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In 1915 the city purchased the old Fairgrounds on Wells Street and promptly named it for Burns.]]> admin photo Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:20:58 -0400 http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/ABotsfordBach.jpg.html http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/ABotsfordBach.jpg.html
Anna Botsford Bach, the daughter of pioneers, married successful businessman Philip Bach in 1876. They entertained frequently in the parlors of their fourteen-room home on South Main Street opposite Packard Street. Mrs. Bach served nine years on the school board and was its first female president. An active member of the Ladies Library Association and the YWCA, she helped organize the Sarah Caswell Angell Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Old Ladies Home Association, later named in her honor.]]> jaimonr photo Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:59:38 -0400 http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/Co-op.jpg.html http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/Co-op.jpg.html
Ellen Morse, who built 419 North State Street, donated it for the first St. Joseph’s Hospital.

Ellen Morse and her mother, Hanorah, built and operated
eight rooming houses for students in the 1870s and 1880s. She gave her house at State and Kingsley to the Sisters of Mercy for the first St. Joseph’s Hospital. When the Sisters built a larger hospital on Ingalls, the house became the first Old Ladies Home]]> admin photo Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:17:52 -0400 http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/HallPlat.jpg.html http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/HallPlat.jpg.html
Detail of an 1895 plat map of Ann Arbor shows the subdivision established by Olivia Hall]]> admin photo Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:13:48 -0400 http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/GSedgwick_prob.jpg.html http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/GSedgwick_prob.jpg.html
A large, enthusiastic crowd and a brass band at the depot greeted attorney George Sedgwick's return from Lansing with the new city charter. It called for four wards, a mayor, an eight-member common council, greater taxing powers, and authority to establish a police force. Since he was primarily responsible for the passage of the charter, Sedgwick was promptly elected the first mayor, but it took another twenty years for the city to establish a paid police force.]]> jaimonr photo Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:24:20 -0400 http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/MITheater_program_gray.jpg.html http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/MITheater_program_gray.jpg.html
In 1978 plans were announced to convert the theater into retail space. A nonprofit organization was formed to “preserve and restore the historic Michigan Theater for the benefit of the community and the arts.” Through the efforts of volunteer organist Henry Aldridge and with the encouragement of Mayor Louis Belcher, the citizens of Ann Arbor decided to purchase the theater from the Poulos family. A restoration process begun in 1986 and completed in 2002 has brought the theater back to the glory of its beautiful movie palace origins.]]> admin photo Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:18:57 -0400 http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/poulos_mod.jpg.html http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/poulos_mod.jpg.html
In 1927, local businessman Angelo Poulos announced he would add a movie theater to the new retail and office building he was planning on Liberty Street near campus. A “Shrine of Entertainment,” the theater would be operated by W. S. Butterfield’s Michigan Circuit of 75 movie theaters. Butterfield and Poulos hired architect Maurice Finkel to design what would become Ann Arbor’s first and only "movie palace."]]> admin photo Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:27:37 -0400 http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/finkel_mod.jpg.html http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/finkel_mod.jpg.html
In 1927, local businessman Angelo Poulos announced he would add a movie theater to the new retail and office building he was planning on Liberty Street near campus. A “Shrine of Entertainment,” the theater would be operated by W. S. Butterfield’s Michigan Circuit of 75 movie theaters. Butterfield and Poulos hired architect Maurice Finkel to design what would become Ann Arbor’s first and only "movie palace."]]> admin photo Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:28:11 -0400 http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/butterfield_mod2.jpg.html http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/butterfield_mod2.jpg.html
In 1927, local businessman Angelo Poulos announced he would add a movie theater to the new retail and office building he was planning on Liberty Street near campus. A “Shrine of Entertainment,” the theater would be operated by W. S. Butterfield’s Michigan Circuit of 75 movie theaters. Butterfield and Poulos hired architect Maurice Finkel to design what would become Ann Arbor’s first and only "movie palace."]]> admin photo Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:26:16 -0400 http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/ushers_300_6x4.jpg.html http://www.aadl.org/gallery/aafounders/ushers_300_6x4.jpg.html ]]> admin photo Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:07:57 -0400