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West Physics Building

Building details

Date Completed:

1905

Architect:

Pond and Pond, of Chicago, with consultations by Professor Henry Smith and Dr. Victor C. Vaughan

Total cost to build:

$26,973.99

Contractor:

Daniel J.Ross

1905 addition:

Architects: Pond and Pond

Contractors: Koch Brothers, of Ann Arbor

Cost of addition: $35,000.00

Net floor area after addition:

18,497 sq. ft.

Additional Facts:

Begun in 1887, completed in 1888

The building was shared by the Medical School and the Department of Physics until the completion of the West Medical Building in 1903

Burned during demolition in the summer of 1966

Source: The University of Michigan: An Encyclopedic Survey; Walter A. Donnelly, Wilfred B. Shaw, and Ruth W. Gjelsness, editors; Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 1958.