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Hours:
Monday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Exceptions
1150 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113 U.S.A.
734-764-3482
Flashback to U-M’s Coliseum ice rink! 🏒
The U-M Coliseum was actually built on the site of a prior local ice rink called Weinberg`s Coliseum, which had relied on cold winter air to freeze the ice! ❄️
As you can imagine, this made the ice quite patchy.
U-M added artificial ice to the rebuilt Coliseum rink in the late 1920s (to the sincere relief of the ice hockey players!)
The rebuilt Coliseum remained the home of U-M ice hockey for well over 40 years, before being turned into a gymnasium.
Today, this building is used by Intramural and Club Sports at U-M!
📸: News & Information Photo Collection circa 1958, and Athletic Department records circa 1923
#UMich #IceHockey #SportsHistory #GoBlue #IceRink #FlashbackFriday
Flashback to U-M’s Coliseum ice rink! 🏒
The U-M Coliseum was actually built on the site of a prior local ice rink called Weinberg`s Coliseum, which had relied on cold winter air to freeze the ice! ❄️
As you can imagine, this made the ice quite patchy.
U-M added artificial ice to the rebuilt Coliseum rink in the late 1920s (to the sincere relief of the ice hockey players!)
The rebuilt Coliseum remained the home of U-M ice hockey for well over 40 years, before being turned into a gymnasium.
Today, this building is used by Intramural and Club Sports at U-M!
📸: News & Information Photo Collection circa 1958, and Athletic Department records circa 1923
#UMich #IceHockey #SportsHistory #GoBlue #IceRink #FlashbackFriday
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Throwback to U-M’s first buildings in Ann Arbor! 🏠
Did you know that the first official U-M buildings built on the Ann Arbor campus were actually houses?
These four structures, known as the “Professors’ Houses,” were approved for construction over 180 years ago! 🕑
They not only served as homes to U-M’s earliest professors, but also housed things like the early “library,” which was a small collection of books, at the time, stored on temporary shelves.
Over the years, these buildings were transformed as the university expanded! Dentistry, medical care, psychology, and pathology were all studied in the Professors’ Houses over the course of U-M’s history.
One of these buildings even went on to become the U-M President’s House!
That makes the U-M President’s House, which still survives today, one of the oldest buildings on U-M’s Ann Arbor campus!
📸: Jasper Cropsey painting of U-M’s early campus, and a circa 1925 photo of the U-M President’s House from the U-M Photo Vertical Files
#TBT #UMich #AnnArbor #MichiganHistory #Campus
Throwback to U-M’s first buildings in Ann Arbor! 🏠
Did you know that the first official U-M buildings built on the Ann Arbor campus were actually houses?
These four structures, known as the “Professors’ Houses,” were approved for construction over 180 years ago! 🕑
They not only served as homes to U-M’s earliest professors, but also housed things like the early “library,” which was a small collection of books, at the time, stored on temporary shelves.
Over the years, these buildings were transformed as the university expanded! Dentistry, medical care, psychology, and pathology were all studied in the Professors’ Houses over the course of U-M’s history.
One of these buildings even went on to become the U-M President’s House!
That makes the U-M President’s House, which still survives today, one of the oldest buildings on U-M’s Ann Arbor campus!
📸: Jasper Cropsey painting of U-M’s early campus, and a circa 1925 photo of the U-M President’s House from the U-M Photo Vertical Files
#TBT #UMich #AnnArbor #MichiganHistory #Campus
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Did you know that dog sleds were sometimes used to deliver mail during snowy Michigan winters, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? 🐶
It’s true! This post office in Cheboygan used dog sleds to deliver mail to places like Walkers Point on the nearby island of Bois Blanc, relying on a winter ice bridge to cross the water.
Here, you can see a historical dog pulling a U.S. mail sled from Cheboygan, circa 1910!
The use of dog sleds to deliver winter mail was often limited to specific regions in Michigan, and largely petered out over the years, but the memory of this unusual period of Michigan history is preserved in photos like this one!
📸: Historical Postcard Collection
#DYK #MichiganHistory #Dog #OldPhoto #HistoricalPostcard #Cheboygan #Winter
Did you know that dog sleds were sometimes used to deliver mail during snowy Michigan winters, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? 🐶
It’s true! This post office in Cheboygan used dog sleds to deliver mail to places like Walkers Point on the nearby island of Bois Blanc, relying on a winter ice bridge to cross the water.
Here, you can see a historical dog pulling a U.S. mail sled from Cheboygan, circa 1910!
The use of dog sleds to deliver winter mail was often limited to specific regions in Michigan, and largely petered out over the years, but the memory of this unusual period of Michigan history is preserved in photos like this one!
📸: Historical Postcard Collection
#DYK #MichiganHistory #Dog #OldPhoto #HistoricalPostcard #Cheboygan #Winter
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Today we remember Raoul Wallenberg, a U-M alum whose quick thinking and hard work saved lives during World War II.
At the University of Michigan in the 1930s, Wallenberg loved drawing, dancing, and visiting the Michigan Union for breakfast.
He traveled often during school breaks, selling sketches along the roadside to earn money.
Few could have guessed that this young architecture student, who went by the nickname “Rudy,” would go on to play such a pivotal role in the survival of so many.
Using his artistic and architectural talents as a Swedish diplomat in Hungary, he would go on to set up safe houses and forge passports for Jewish people, helping them escape the Holocaust.
He’s estimated to have saved tens of thousands of lives. There are so many people who would not be alive if it weren’t for his work.
In 1945, he disappeared, taken into a Soviet prison. He was never heard from again.
Wallenberg’s memory lives on: both a medal U-M gives to outstanding humanitarians, and a U-M institute dedicated to pushing back against discrimination, are named after him.
If you walk up to the U-M Art & Architecture building, you will find a sculpture created in honor of Wallenberg, titled “Köszönöm Raoul Wallenberg” (meaning “Thank You Raoul Wallenberg” in Hungarian) by artist Jon Rush.
It’s engraved with the motto: “One person can make a difference.”
#HolocaustRemembranceDay #RaoulWallenberg #UMich #Alumni
Today we remember Raoul Wallenberg, a U-M alum whose quick thinking and hard work saved lives during World War II.
At the University of Michigan in the 1930s, Wallenberg loved drawing, dancing, and visiting the Michigan Union for breakfast.
He traveled often during school breaks, selling sketches along the roadside to earn money.
Few could have guessed that this young architecture student, who went by the nickname “Rudy,” would go on to play such a pivotal role in the survival of so many.
Using his artistic and architectural talents as a Swedish diplomat in Hungary, he would go on to set up safe houses and forge passports for Jewish people, helping them escape the Holocaust.
He’s estimated to have saved tens of thousands of lives. There are so many people who would not be alive if it weren’t for his work.
In 1945, he disappeared, taken into a Soviet prison. He was never heard from again.
Wallenberg’s memory lives on: both a medal U-M gives to outstanding humanitarians, and a U-M institute dedicated to pushing back against discrimination, are named after him.
If you walk up to the U-M Art & Architecture building, you will find a sculpture created in honor of Wallenberg, titled “Köszönöm Raoul Wallenberg” (meaning “Thank You Raoul Wallenberg” in Hungarian) by artist Jon Rush.
It’s engraved with the motto: “One person can make a difference.”
#HolocaustRemembranceDay #RaoulWallenberg #UMich #Alumni
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Hours:
Monday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Tuesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Exceptions
1150 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2113 U.S.A.
734-764-3482