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View From 7th Floor Of Ann Arbor Trust Building To Construction Site of Lurie Terrace on W. Huron, February 1964 Photographer: Doug Fulton

View From 7th Floor Of Ann Arbor Trust Building To Construction Site of Lurie Terrace on W. Huron, February 1964 image
Year:
1964
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, February 24, 1964
Caption:
'Pentagons': A new mark on the Ann Arbor skyline stands out against winter-bare trees in this telephot shot of Lurie Terrace, taken from the seventh floor of the Ann Arbor trust Building. Concrete pouring has been completed on the top floors of the twin eight-story, pentagon-shaped towers of the Senior Citizens housing project, located at W. Huron and Chapin Sts. within easy walking distance of downtown. The building, scheduled for completion in September, will include 143 apartments designed for persons 62 and older, a dining room and men's club on the upper level and a wide variety of special-purpose rooms devoted to hobbies and recreation. Senior Citizens of Ann Arbor, Inc. will operate it.

Sixth Level of Lurie Terrace Being Poured, December 1963 Photographer: Duane Scheel

Sixth Level of Lurie Terrace Being Poured, December 1963 image
Year:
1963
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, December 25, 1963
Caption:
Pouring Sixth Level: The sixth level of the eight-story Lurie Terrace of 600 W. Huron is now being poured as the project moves closer to scheduled September completion. Lurie Terrace is a 143-unit apartment building for persons 62 and older, which will contain a dining room and men's club on the eighth level, besides gathering rooms on each floor. The facility will have a conservatory-type of greenhouse, music, arts and crafts rooms, library and other special usage rooms now being planned. Several hundred persons have applied to live in Lurie Terrace, it was announced. Application can still be made by writing to Lurie Terrace, 600 W. Huron, Ann Arbor. Prospective tenants will be interviewed "in the near future" a spokesman said. Senior Citizens Housing of Ann Arbor, Inc., will operate the apartment building.

Bricks From Historic Lorin Mills House Viewed By Mills Descendants and Lurie Terrace Officials, August 1963

Bricks From Historic Lorin Mills House Viewed By Mills Descendants and Lurie Terrace Officials, August 1963 image
Year:
1963
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, August 9, 1963
Caption:
Patio In Remembrance: The old Lorin Mills house at 600 W. Huron St., which has been demolished to make way for Lurie Terrace, will be remembered in the form of a patio constructed out of bricks from the house. Ross W. Campbell, great-great-grandson of Mills (center), and his two sons, Christopher (extreme left) and Charles examine the bricks on the site along with (from left) Avery Downer, president of the Senior Citizens Housing of Ann Arbor, Inc., Miss Lela Duff, local historian, and Mrs. Shata Ling, future director of Lurie Terrace.