Essays on the people, buildings, and events in the conjoined histories of East Lansing and Michigan State University, with a particular interest in the Michigan Agricultural College era (1855–1925), and a timeline of significant events.
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The “Home-Building Campaign” of 1929–1931
This week in 1929, a brass band played, the state Attorney General gave a speech, and more than two thousand people came to look at a house. “The Downer” was the first home in the Lansing State Journal‘s ambitious Home-Building Campaign — a burst of civic optimism that the Great Depression would quietly extinguish two years later. Read More. →
