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

Glen Cairn (№ 1, 1926; № 2, 1938; № 3, 1939)


Advertisement for Glen Cairn (1926) showing the platted lots of № 1 and the hypothetical streets of № 2. Plat № 3 extended the subdivision north to the Saginaw Highway, reconfiguring all of № 2 and several lots of № 1. Image Credit: Lansing State Journal, 25 Sep 1926, p. 21.

Robert S. Shaw platted a portion of his 160-acre farm into this subdivision using names from his ancestral Scotland. It was annexed into the City on November 2, 1926. In subsequent years the neighborhood’s name has been condensed into “Glencairn.”[Thomas, p. 195. Towar, p. 87]

Gov. George Romney House, 1045 Rosewood Ave. (1945)
Charles W. Bachman House, 929 Roxburgh (1937)

The Holy Earth

by Liberty Hyde Bailey
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