Old Main, 1915

[Ray1936]

You Wayne Staters will love today's Shorpy photo: Old Main in 1915.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/10163?size=_original

And, no, that is not me doing traffic. Might have been my training sergeant, though.

[JBMcB]

Cool picture! Amazing how little the building has changed - apart from the landscaping the front is nearly identical. Amazing how much nicer it looks with all the trees, and with a narrower Warren.

[detroittrader]

That's a great one. I spent a lot of hours in that building from 1986-89. I notice there is scaffolding in front of the Hilberry, without using the google I would imagine the Hilberry was built in 1915?

[drjeff]

I never knew there was a trolley on Warren. Cool pic.

[Homer]

Looks like someone left their horsepoop shovel unattended, must be on a coffee break.

[EastsideAl]

Thanks a lot for calling that wonderful picture of Old Main/Central High to my attention Ray. What a great picture - and it lead me to take a search through the U of M Burton Collection site, in which I found some pictures of the building under construction, and even the cornerstone-laying ceremony.

Not only did both of my parents attend college there [[and my sister, for good measure), but my great grandmother worked in the building during its high school days as a cleaner.

That's a great one. I spent a lot of hours in that building from 1986-89. I notice there is scaffolding in front of the Hilberry, without using the google I would imagine the Hilberry was built in 1915?

Yup. What's today the Hilberry Theater was built between 1915 and 1917 as the First Church of Christ Scientist.

[EastsideAl]

The cornerstone laying for Central High School:



Under construction:



Newly completed in 1897:



And, just for good measure, 20 years later, the newly completed First Church of Christ Scientist:

[rjk]

What's that on the left side of the mailbox?