Introduction

Origins

The City

Collegeville (1887, 1895)
College Delta (1897, 1899)
Oakwood (1899)
Cedar Bank (1900)
College Grove (1903)
Fairview (1903, 1905)
College Heights (1904)

Charter of 1907

Avondale (1913)
Bungalow Knolls (1915)
Chesterfield Hills (1916)
Ardson Heights (1919)
Ridgely Park (1920)
Oak Ridge (1924)
Strathmore (1925)
Glen Cairn (1926)

The Campus

Chronology

1855–1870
1871–1885
1886–1900
1901–1915
1916–1927

 

Interactive Map

Sites on the National and State Historic Registers

Complete list of
Significant Structures

Sources

Cedar Bank (1900)


“Cedar Bank” plat map, surveyed and drawn by H. D. Bartholomew. Excerpt from the original filing as recorded in 1900. Image source: Michigan OLSR.

Dwight Harrison, youngest son of the Harrison family, attempted to get in on the residential speculation by platting a portion of his inheritance at the southwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Harrison Road. A pair of crossing streets were named for his late parents, Almond and Eliza Harrison. This subdivision never really took off—Newman’s 1915 map only shows two buildings on its 32 lots.


Detail of Cedar Bank from Newman, 1915.

No trace of Cedar Bank, nor of several neighboring streets to the west in Lansing Township, remains today. By around 1920, Cedar Bank had become the site of the East Lansing city dump, which remained active until the late 1940s or early 1950s. Substantial portions of the northernmost lots were condemned by the state highway department circa 1927 for construction of the Michigan Avenue boulevard. Ultimately the rest of the land was acquired by M.S.U. and beginning in 1954 was replaced by the Brody Neighborhood of residence halls. Today, the former intersection of Almond and Eliza Streets is on the lawn just south of Butterfield Hall’s north wing.[CAPBlog, 10 Nov 2017. CAPBlog, 17 Oct 2017. Miller, p. 80]

 

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