OT? - Albert Kahn Buildings on Campus

Christmas came early this year!  Can't wait to look at them all.

Also he was very active in Greek Housing:

Greek Organization Buildings:

• • Sigma Phi House (1900), 426 North Ingalls Street (demolished)
  • Delta Upsilon House (1903), 1331 Hill Street
  • Collegiate Sorosis House (1905–06), 1501 Washtenaw Avenue
  • Delta Gamma House (1912), 1205 Hill Street
  • Psi Upsilon House (1925), 1000 Hill Street

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kahn_(architect)#Kahn-designed_buildings

Albert Kahn is the father of Eddie Kahn, who scored the first-ever goal for the University of Michigan hockey team.

Don't forget about another, also-famous architect's presence on campus: that of Eero Saarinen.  He developed an early master plan for North Campus, as well as designing a number of buildings including the school of music.

was pretty much the first industrial production architect, not only in that he did a lot of factory work, but that his office was able to produce buildings at an amazingly fast pace. over 700 buildings, mostly factories, in the soviet union alone, from his detroit office, before fax, email, internet, sometimes not even phones. over 1000 projects for ford, alone.

I need to get up to do some photos on North Campus one of these days.

Not on campus but the Detroit Golf Club clubhouse next door to Palmer Park is an Albert Kahn building.  A number of beautiful houses of Kahn's can be found in the Palmer Woods and Sherwood Forest neighborhoods at 7 Mile & Woodward.

I am ashamed to admit that I walked by those building for 4 years and never appreciated their architectural details and beauty.

Thanks for sharing them!

This is not meant to derail the conversation in a great OT, but I couldn't help notice . . . I didn't realize that there is still snow on the ground up there!  Brutal.

I went through your entire photo history on your blog and, really, have you never been to Cranbrook?

The original Booth house is a Kahn and there's Saarinen all over the place.  Get over there!

The former Ann Arbor News buiding, on Division between Washington and Huron, is another Albert Kahn here in Ann Arbor.

Thanks so much for posting.  I'll definitly be bookmarking your blog.

i think this is the best mgoboard topic ever.  i'm not even kidding.

Isn't Couzens Hall also a Kahn?

Didn't see these two mentioned -- the gates at Yost and the Gandy Dancer (aka old train station).

You really need to get to campus on a sunny spring/summer day. I personally don't think we have the most beautiful campus architecture, though there are a few nice buildings. However,  West Hall (West Engineering) is really beautiful in the Spring/Summer. In fact, I would say, besides the front façade of Angell, West Hall might be the most beautiful building on the Diag. With the twin spires (would you call those spires?) and the ivy, it really looks great in the sun (wish I could get a bigger version of this picture, thanks FB!). 

The campus used to have a lot of sick buildings before they were demolished or burned down. If you go next to the Union, there's a little display outside about the history of buildings on campus. I don't know if a lot of people stop to check that stuff out, but there are some really interesting buildings to check out. I particularly liked the old library, especially consider the new one.

That is some amazing architecture there. One thing that stood out was the engineering building and the two green domes. When I was at VT the engineering building was either the traditional 2-story one covered in white stone, there wasn't anything special about it.