Exhibit Locations

SITE 1. LIBERTY and DIVISION: in Liberty Plaza
Residential life of early settlers and neighborhoods where prominent families lived.

• Residential life in mid-19th-century Ann Arbor

• WALL DISPLAYS:
  • At Home in the 19th Century
  • The 19th Century Neighborhood
  • Preserving Ann Arbor’s Architectural and Social History

SITE 2. MAIN and LIBERTY: southeast corner
The shopping experience through time: department stores, changing products, theaters.

• The Main Street Shopping Experience

• WALL DISPLAYS:
  • Main Street Shopping Expands
  • Downtown Movie Theaters
  • Changing Retail Patterns

SITE 3. MAIN and WILLIAM: northwest corner
Transportation and Lighting, streetcars, the interurban, Detroit Edison, parades.

• Power and Transportation

• WALL DISPLAYS:
  • Ann Arbor Streetcars
  • Everyone Loves a Parade

SITE 4. LIBERTY and ASHLEY: northeast corner
Influence of topography, including Allen Creek, on patterns of urban growth and change.

• Allen Creek Valley Shapes the Town

• WALL DISPLAYS:
  • Industry and Recreation on Allen Creek
  • The Ann Arbor Railroad

SITE 5. WASHINGTON and ASHLEY: southeast corner
German immigrants' influence on city growth and identity.

• Germans in Ann Arbor

• WALL DISPLAYS:
  • The Staeblers and the Germania/American Hotel
  • Germans on Ashley Street
  • From Horses to Cars: Early Autos, Service, and Parts
  • Three Generations of Metzgers on Washington Street

SITE 6. MAIN and WASHINGTON: southeast corner
Commerce and banking in the evolution of Main Street and the town.

• Business and Banking

• WALL DISPLAYS:
  • Eating and Drinking in Ann Arbor
  • Dry Goods
  • Hardware

SITE 7. MAIN and HURON:
Town life and the Courthouse square

• FRAMES:
  MAIN and HURON: southwest corner
  • A Landmark of Civic Pride on Courthouse square

  MAIN and HURON: northeast corner

  • Hospitality on Courthouse Square
  • Pedestal Map

  MAIN and HURON: northeast corner

  • Architecture and Business on Courthouse Square

  MAIN and ANN: southwest corner

  • Centers for Communications on Courthouse Square

  ARTIFACTS:
  On the planter on SW corner of Main and Huron

  • Cornerstone
  • Civil War Recruitment
  • Death of President Lincoln

  WALL DISPLAYS:
  On Main and Huron, SE corner

  • The Last Deposit

  On South wall of Courthouse

  • Building New Around Old: The Construction of the Present Courthouse

  On West wall of Courthouse

  • Politics and Processions on Courthouse Square
  • Courthouse Square: A Center of Civic Life
  • Departing Heroes and the Home Front

  On North wall of Courthouse

  • Main Street in the 1890s
  • Shopping on East Huron Street
  • The Streets Around Courthouse Square
  • Commerce on the Ann Street Block
  • A Former Bank and Estate on Ann Street
  • A Meeting Place for Ann Arbors Black Community
  • The Changing face of North Forth Avenue
  • A Corner Landmark on Huron and North Fourth

  On the Bus stop

  • From Interurbans to Buses
  • Ann Arbor’s New “Streamlined” Bus Depot

SITE 8. FIFTH AVENUE and HURON: northeast corner
City services, city hall, fire and police.

• The Growth of City Services

• WALL DISPLAYS:
  • Essential City Services
  • New City Government, New Issues, and a New City Hall

SITE 9a. CATHERINE and NORTH FOURTH AVENUE: southeast corner
A supply, manufacturing, and service area between river, railroad, and town.

• A Supply side of Town

SITE 9b. FIFTH AVENUE at DETROIT: west side

• Lumber and Agriculture
   
• WALL DISPLAYS:
  • Ann Arbor’s African American Community
  • A Changing Neighborhood
  • Between Downtown and the Railroad
  • Industry on Detroit Street

SITE 10a. BROADWAY BRIDGE at entrance to Broadway Park
Lower town, transportation, town and gown.

• The Center of Power and Transportation

SITE 10b. BROADWAY at SWIFT: east side at north end of bridge
Lower town, transportation, town and gown.

• Lower Town

• PORCELAIN EXHIBIT PANELS:
  • The Underground Railroad
  • The Clairvoyant Physician
  • The Agricultural Works and Lower Town
  • From Industry to Parks
  • Lower Town's Flour Mills
  • Early Power and Transportation
  • The Finest on the Line
  • Along the Michigan Central Railroad Tracks

SITE 11. STATE and HURON: northwest corner
Churches and schools in town life.

• Schools and Churches

• WALL DISPLAYS:
  • Ann Arbor High School
  • Carnegie Library
  • Harris Hall

SITE 12. STATE and LIBERTY: east side
Entertainment and cultural change

• Town and Gown: Entertainment and Changing Culture

• WALL DISPLAYS:
  • The James Foster House of Art
  • From Liveries to Taxis
  • Uptown Theaters
  • A Book Lover’s Town
  • Remembering Drake’s
  • Music! Music! Music!
  • The University Musical Society and the May Festival

SITE 13a. STATE and NORTH UNIVERSITY: southeast corner
Impact of the University of Michigan upon local culture and commercial and residential growth.

• A Second Shopping District

SITE 13b. NORTH UNIVERSITY and STATE: east of southeast corner

• The University Expands

SITE 14a,14b and 14c. STATE STREET: in front of Michigan Union
Development of the University as an educational and physical presence

• The Making of a Great University
• University of Michigan Campus, 1907
• The Michigan Union and the Peace Corps

SITE 15. SOUTH UNIVERSITY and EAST UNIVERSITY: in plaza on north side
Academic, Social and Political side of the Relationship between university and city.

• Social and Political Change on South University

• WALL DISPLAYS:
  • The Corners of South University and East University Avenues
  • Like a Small Village
  • Houses to High Rises on South University Avenue
  • South University and Forest Avenues

SITE 16. SOUTH UNIVERSITY and WASHTENAW: northwest corner
Changing patterns of residential life:fraternities, sororities, cooperatives, apartments.

• Changing Patterns of Residential Life