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Michigan Avenue

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1870–1910. Michigan Ave. between Remington and Lee sts.
  • (Photograph by Balthazar Korab)

Fort Saginaw, the military garrison established in 1822, which was located near the present-day intersection of Court and Hamilton streets, was the original nucleus of the Saginaw City business district. Two small residential districts located a respectable distance from Saginaw City's business district on N. and S. Michigan Avenue were the west side's grandest. Here were the residences of second-generation businessmen, lumbermen, and investors who built houses that closely paralleled the residential developments of the east side.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Kathryn Bishop Eckert
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What's Nearby

Saginaw Art Museum (Clark L. and Lizzie Merrill Ring House)
Saginaw City Hall
Montague Inn (Robert and Edwina Montague House)
The Grove
Saginaw County Government Center

Citation

Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Michigan Avenue", [Saginaw, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-SA1.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Michigan

Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 310-310.

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