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By Susan Cee Wineberg

Ann Arbor may need turn into simply one other small Michigan village had it now not been for one the most important occasion: its designation because the domestic of the collage of Michigan in 1837. Its next improvement right into a thriving cultural and highbrow group used to be marked by way of its awesome structure, from the grand 1878 courthouse to the beautiful unique college structures and classy East Huron highway. the growth of the city and collage, the arriving of the car, and widespread fires started atransformation of Ann Arbor that ended in the tragic demolition of a few of its such a lot extraordinary buildings. misplaced Ann Arbor is a tribute to those long-lost treasures and the nineteenth century lifestyle that followed them.

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