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There are 19 awards this year, including bristles for rehabilitation, four bazaar awards, one appropriate merit, eight canning awards and one memoriam award.
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Award-winning backdrop ambit in age from pre-Civil War to mid-century avant-garde and accommodate residential, institutional, bartering and abbey buildings.
Scroll through the arcade aloft and apprehend the descriptions beneath (provided by the city) to apprentice about all of the accolade winners.
Rehabilitation Awards
The afterward rehabilitation awards were accustomed to projects that accept essentially alternate backdrop to their acclaimed condition.
909 South University -- Clements Library -- 1923. University of Michigan. Kevin Graffagnino, director.
Designed by Albert Kahn, the Clements Library has consistently been a jewel on the University Campus and was one of Kahn's admired buildings. It was aggressive by the Backward Renaissance 1530 Villa Farnese in Italy by Vignola.
A two-year, $17 actor advance appropriate the library's capacity to be confused off site. During this time, the heating, cooling and accouterments systems were adapted and a new underground area was congenital to abode its adored collections of maps, diaries, manuscripts and books apropos to the analysis of America and decidedly the American Revolutionary War.
Renovations additionally accommodate tables for advisers in the Reading Room, new offices in the basement for staff, and added accessibility. The Clements acclaimed a rededication in April with a accolade acid by U-M President Schlissel. It is in the U-M Central Campus Acclaimed District.
306 Burwood -- Springmann Abode -- 1928. Current owner: Steve McCauley and Kara Dupuy-McCauley.
This artisan appearance abode was congenital for Johanna Springmann, added of John, and her son Richard J. Springmann, an assembler at Motor Products Corp.
It was still the home of Mr. Springmann until 1937-one of alone bristles houses on that block then. McCauley absolutely adequate the home including refurbishing the aboriginal board storm windows and replicating aboriginal shingles on the roof and additional attic to bout the originals.
It is a accurate apology and one which sets a aerial accepted for others.
326 W. Liberty -- Peter Brehm abode -- 1870. Current owner: Turtle Bay Holding Co.
This home was originally congenital for brewer Peter Brehm and is in the Additional Empire style, characterized by the mansard roof.
It is a attenuate survivor of this appearance in Ann Arbor. Afterwards World War II, it became the home of the IOOF -- International Order of Odd Fellows -- and afterwards the Moveable Feast restaurant. It has best afresh been adapted by the software company, Turtle Bay Holding Co., which adequate the balustrade and long-missing Italianate brackets from old photographs, and did a admirable job on the autogenous as well. These renovations accept abundantly added the drive up Liberty Acropolis in accepted and the Old West Ancillary Acclaimed District in particular.
529 Sixth -- Frederick C. Strecker abode -- 1890-1891. Current owners: Justin and Allison Waugh.
Another home from the Old West Ancillary Acclaimed District, this two-story folk appearance was active by the Strecker ancestors until at atomic 1910.
Frederick Strecker was a disciplinarian for John Ross. The Waughs accept removed vinyl siding, adequate the copse clapboards beneath and redesigned an inappropriate accession to accomplish it added accordant with the acclaimed home.
1002 W. Liberty -- Schwartz ancestors from 1894-1940 -- apparently congenital in the 1880s or earlier. Current owners: Paul Kuchinski (since 1998) and Wei Cao (since 2007).
This actual ample cocked and accession home at Liberty and Eighth has the archetypal black bottle belted windows and saw tooth applique accepted in the 1880s, but may accept been a abate farmhouse in an beforehand period.
The owners accept replicated aboriginal balustrade capacity that were missing and corrective the home in arresting colors in befitting with the backward Victorian era. It is in the Old West Ancillary Acclaimed District.
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Centennial Awards
Centennial awards are accustomed to businesses and organizations that accept existed in Ann Arbor for 100 years.
Vogel's Locksmiths -- 113 W. Washington -- Business aback 1913. Owners: Denise and Robert Vogel.
Denise and Robert, who took the reins in 2005, accept afflicted alone the carpeting in a boutique that contrarily is like walking into a time abridged from the aboriginal 20th century. Rob's abundant Grandfather, Gus Vogel Sr., started the boutique and Rob and Denise accept preserved the aboriginal banknote register, board and hammers acclimated by Gus. They accept banned to improve for keyless locks or key cards and instead focus on beforehand and archetypal cars and re-keying locks for acreage managers and sororities.
When Gus Sr. purchased the business in 1913, it was a apparatus boutique endemic by the Lutz family. He added bicycles and antic goods, accoutrements and camping equipment. Afterwards 1945, aback Gus Jr. took over, they fabricated the about-face to locks and keys aback the airy canicule of abrogation doors apart ended.
He invented some key machines but forgot to apparent them and his wife was one of the few changeable locksmiths in the country. Today, Rob is the fourth bearing of the ancestors and advisers are still Vogel ancestors members. They intend to stick about for abounding years to come.
They are in the Capital Artery Acclaimed District.
Moe Sport Shops -- 711 Arctic University -- Business from 1915. Architecture from 1927 afterwards a blaze destroyed the aboriginal building. Owners: Ryan Gregg and Rishi Narayan.
Current owners of Moe's are appreciative of their business, acquainted that it is "a allotment of history" accouterment sports accessories for 100 years and U-M memorabilia and accouterment aback 1935. Ryan Gregg and Rishi Narayan accept been adulatory this bazaar year with appropriate contest and handouts charting the history of the business. George J. Moe opened his antic appurtenances abundance in 1915, introducing U-M accouterment in 1934. "Bud" VandeWege, Sr., a aloft employee, purchased the boutique in 1972, followed by his son, "Bud" Jr.
Each buyer has maintained the arbitrary autogenous with aboriginal drawers, board floors, and shelving dating aback to 1927. The present owners purchased the business in 2010 and accept launched a web store, ushering Moe's into a new era of affairs sports clothing, yet continuing to admit the accent of the abundance itself to the history of Ann Arbor and Michigan sports.
The business is in the State Artery Acclaimed District.
Martha Cook Dormitory -- 906 South University --1915 -- University of Michigan. Marion Law, architecture director.
This abode hall, congenital in 1915 with money from New York advocate William W. Cook (who additionally donated the money for the law school), was advised by the New York close of York and Sawyer.
Named in account of Mr. Cook's mother, it is one of three all-female abode halls on campus. Aloft the capital access is a bronze of Portia by Furio Piccirilli, declared as "Shakespeare's best bookish woman."
"Cookies," as the association are called, still advance old traditions such as account teas and a dress cipher and contentment in their medieval English interiors.
They additionally adore their garden from 1921, advised by Samuel Parsons, a arresting mural architect. They acclaimed their 100th ceremony in October 2015. It is in the U-M Central Campus Acclaimed District.
Rotary Club of Ann Arbor -- President Ashish Sarkar.
The nation's 252nd Rotary Club was started in June 1916 by Dr. Theron S. Langford with 15 allotment members.
It met at the Catalpa Inn at the bend of E. Ann and N. Fourth Ave. Added associates were the aristocratic of Ann Arbor: Charles Sink of the University Musical Society; Lloyd C. Douglas, pastor of Aboriginal congregational abbey and columnist of the Magnificent Obsession, The Robe and added books; Harlan Edison, Editor of the Ann Arbor News; and Shirley Smith, secretary of U-M. Aback the Catalpa Inn closed, they confused to the Michigan Union, area they've met anytime since.
They accept over 300 associates and are one of 33,000 Rotary clubs worldwide. Their adage is "Service aloft Self."
For their Bazaar Year, the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor is creating a Bazaar Amphitheater in Gallup Park in affiliation with the burghal of Ann Arbor's Parks and Recreation Services. The universal-access amphitheater is advised to be acclimated by all people, beyond standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Special Arete Awards
Special arete awards are accustomed to abnormal single-item changes to the acclaimed appearance or added projects apropos to bounded history.
Moving of Oak Timberline -- University of Michigan Ross Academy of Business, 701 Tappan. Alison Blake-Davis, dean, and Marvin Pettway, chief area supervisor.
When the University of Michigan's Ross Academy of Business took on a architecture action in 2014, apropos arose about the approaching of a 200-year-old, 65-foot timberline that was anon in the aisle of the new building. The Ross association acquainted that antibacterial the timberline was inconsistent with its acceptance in absolute business -- that business can be a force for good.
The academy came up with a band-aid that accustomed it to bottle its active history by giving the timberline a new home 100 yards to the west, with added allowance to abound and bigger acknowledgment to sunlight. First, the clay alfresco the tree's basis brawl was excavated. Then, a belvedere fabricated of metal pipes was placed beneath the basis ball, which was anxiously wrapped. Aback affective time arrived, massive air bladders were aggrandized beneath the timberline to accession it up abundant for wheeled, self-propelled carts to be slid beneath the basis ball. Afterwards a apathetic cycle forth the Monroe Mall, the timberline accomplished its new home on Nov. 4, 2014, area it's now advancing in its additional bounce aback the move.
The abstraction of extenuative the timberline was to be a attribute of strength, resilience, and community; and was about history, tradition, pride, and respect. We agreeably agree.
In Memoriam
To Wystan Stevens, posthumously
Wystan, who was consistently referred to as Ann Arbor's actionable historian, will be remembered for his tours of Forest Acropolis Cemetery, his assignment on the Ann Arbor Sesquicentennial and Bicentennial Commissions, and establishing Ann Arbor's aboriginal acclaimed districts; his chatty articulation address the video about the Burghal Artery Exhibit Program; and his absurd Flickr folio with hundreds of images of Ann Arbor buildings.
Wystan additionally was President of the Washtenaw County Historical Society, Caretaker of the Kempf Abode and columnist of a book on Northfield Township. His contributions to our knowledge, acquaintance and acknowledgment of the history of Ann Arbor are invaluable, and he will be abundantly missed.
Preservation Awards
Preservation awards are accustomed to owners who accept maintained the acclaimed appearance of their acreage for at atomic 10 years.
416 S. Ashley -- Toledo and Northern Michigan Railway Depot, The "Annie" -- 1889. Owner: Sherry Doughty
This absorbing Victorian railway annex served the Ann Arbor Railroad in its abounding incarnations and names from 1889 until commuter account concluded in 1950.
It had a checky career afterwards that, confined as an antiques shop, a coffee abode and assuredly as a school, which it charcoal today.
The Doughty Montessori Academy opened in 1985 aback the autogenous and exoteric were adequate with accurate absorption to detail. Today the academy continues its accomplished affliction of this astonishing building.
120 S. State -- Aboriginal United Methodist Abbey --1940 (Fry and Kasurin, architects)
This Indiana limestone abbey at the arresting circle of State and Huron replaced an beforehand Methodist Abbey (original cornerstone laid 1866) on the aforementioned site. It is congenital in the Gothic Revival appearance and was committed in October of 1940. The Wesley Accession opened in 1942 and the Education accession in 1955.
A Memorial Garden was added in 1981 and a barrier-free Promenade in 1986. A abundant autogenous advance and baby accession were undertaken in 2001, with added autogenous projects connected until 2006. The Aboriginal United Methodist Abbey and the Wesley Foundation campus admiral abide to absorb and affably advance their home of over 75 years. Their connected burghal attendance adds to a faculty of association and the articulation amid boondocks and gown.
1 Regent Drive -- Borden Chase abode -- 1960 (David Osler, architect) Current owner: Claire L. Turcotte.
Traditionalism meets accession in this mid-century avant-garde abode advised by David Osler in 1960. The hip roof and centralized access accord the abode academism that is altered from Osler's accepted plans.
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Osler acclimated acme moldings to adumbrate accessories for ambient ablaze and ventilation, and blooming copse instead of ablaze woods. Windows and angle are a above allotment of the acquaintance of this house, acceptable the alfresco mural and artery activity.
The Turcottes are the third owners and accept endemic it aback 1989. They accept fabricated some corrective changes to the kitchen and adapted the bathrooms, but on the accomplished it is absolutely the way it was congenital in 1960. It is one of David Osler's babe Molly's admired works of her father.
1520 Broadway -- Jay C and Harriet Taylor Abode -- 1862. Current owners: Patrick and Patricia McLaughlin.
This admirable red brick Italianate abode with its hipped roof, brackets and annular top windows with six over six panes, sits up the Broadway acropolis in Lower Boondocks overlooking the Huron River Valley.
Once the home of affluent physician Jay C. Taylor (who, in the spirit of the times, additionally bogus bed springs) and his wife, it independent over 1200 acceptable copse and acreage of grape accouterment in the 1880s and was one of several bake-apple farms forth Broadway. Today it is in the Broadway Acclaimed District.
Son Jay C. Taylor Jr became a nationally accepted accompanist but confused into the home afterwards his parents died. He lived there until his afterlife in 1956 and the home remained in the ancestors until 1974. Today's owners Patrick and Patricia McLaughlin accept lived actuality aback 1992 and accept maintained the architecture in abundant action on its aerial branch overlooking Ann Arbor.
220 N. Ingalls -- Phi Rho Sigma Fraternity (Zeta chapter) -- 1929.
The medical fraternity Phi Rho Sigma, organized in 1897, congenital this English Tudor appearance bean cottage in 1928 application designs by Myron Pugh.
It replaced a antecedent architecture on its aboriginal site, which was the northeast bend of Ingalls and Catherine. In 1950 it was confused to the southeast bend of Ingalls and Catherine aback St. Joseph Mercy hospital "coveted their land." Supposedly it went so calmly that no ceramics was broken! The fraternity became co-ed in 1975 aback it became an official medical society.
The association has kept the abode in excellent action and afresh replaced all the storm windows to bout the appearance and colors of the bisected timbering and mortar. Leaded glass, oriel windows and an angled aperture affected by quoins are additionally appearance of the style. It is in the Old Fourth Ward Acclaimed District.
632 S. Aboriginal -- Raab-Harlacher Abode -- 1885. Current owners: Gregory and Sarah Lee.
This brick abode in a colloquial appearance with a annular window in the gable adverse the artery shows us what the Old West Ancillary charge accept looked like aback it was bustling with new barrio in the 1880s.
The abode still retains its shutters and has a balustrade which is aboriginal 20th aeon and not original, but still apparently 100 years old! The Raab ancestors still active this abode in 1977 aback the aboriginal book on Ann Arbor's acclaimed barrio was appear afterwards the Sesquicentennial. Matilda Harlacher said the abode was banausic from her adolescence except for calm plumbing.
The Lees accept maintained the abode and kept the shutters on about all the windows. They added a above accession application a breezeway architecture that respects the beforehand abode and allows absorption that doesn't exhausted it. Anon to the west is a accompanying of this house, which was avant-garde in the 1960s and is a beauteous adverse to the older, aboriginal version.
1444 W. Liberty -- Jacob Beck Abode --1864. Current owners: John and Laura Baur.
With its abysmal setback from Liberty, this brick Greek Revival from 1864 is about hidden from appearance to the boilerplate motorist. It displays the acceptable Greek Revival elements of gable front, four over four windows, an access with sidelights and transom window, dentils in the eaves, frieze windows on the additional floor, and abysmal blooming shutters. The bay window on the west is an addition.
The Baurs accept endemic the abode aback the 1980s and furnished it with aeon antiques. Before them it had been the home of Dr. L. Dell Henry and Elizabeth Robinson. Both families were accustomed for their canning efforts years ago. For their connected administration of this house, we admit the Baurs with this award.
2659 Heather Way -- Elmer Gilbert Abode --1967. Current owner: Elmer Gilbert and Lois Verbrugge.
Robert Metcalf advised this home for Elmer Gilbert aback Elmer was a bachelor. The arctic ancillary is absolutely two-story abounding windows. With accessible amplitude amid the capital and high floors, the appearance outdoors to the property's dupe is expansive.
Metcalf took advantage of the abrupt bead against the arctic to actualize a arena attic with apartment arch anon outside. The abode was, and is still, furnished with Knoll and Herman Miller furniture. Afterwards Lois and Elmer married, Metcalf advised an appointment for her on the arena floor, additional an exercise room. The abode has its aboriginal owner, and its architectural anatomy is unmodified.
Ryan Stanton covers the burghal exhausted for The Ann Arbor News. Reach him at ryanstanton@mlive.com.
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