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

Taft House, 446 Grove St. (1921)


Taft House, November 2003. Photo Credit: Kevin S. Forsyth

Levi Rawson Taft (August 22, 1859 – February 12, 1941) was Professor of Horticulture and Landscape Gardening (1888–1902), state inspector of nurseries and orchards (1902–1921), and chief horticulturist of Michigan (1921–1925). During his tenure he and his family lived on campus in Faculty Row № 9, and beginning 1908 lived in Faculty Row № 8. He and his wife Ella (1854–1935) raised six children, all of whom became M.A.C. graduates: Grace Helen (’04), Lillian Maynard (’05), Howard Austin (’11), Hazel Charlotte (’10), Harry Goodell (’12), and Ethel (’16).[Beal, pp. 426–428. LSJ, 13 Feb 1941, p. 1. Minutes, 18 Mar 1908, p. 477; 13 Jun 1916, p. 264]

From 1940 to 1946 this house was one of several off-campus women's cooperative houses rented and operated by the College, and was named in honor of Ella Taft (although by that time the house was owned by Orletta Hansen, M.S.C. housing maintenance supervisor for women).[Minutes, 5 Jul 1940, p. 1646; 5 Aug 1943, p. 1939]

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