Ardson Heights (1919)
Map excerpted from City of East Lansing Use Districts, 1926. As originally platted, Wildwood Drive continued due east to the edge of the plat. This was soon altered to attach to the adjacent plat’s street, via the curve toward the northeast corner seen here.
Advertised as “The Gem of East Lansing,” Ardson Heights was platted on the site of the former Lansing Country Club golf course, which dated from 1902. By 1915, the City of East Lansing had annexed the land, and within two years a house was built at 417 Ardson, which remains today. Ardson Road was converted to a cul-de-sac in the late 1980s, disconnecting it from the busy intersection of Harrison Road and Grand River Avenue.[Miller, p. 58]
Gov. Murray D. Van Wagoner House, 415 Clifton Blvd. (1925) |
Ridgely Park (1920)
Map excerpted from City of East Lansing Use Districts, 1926. Note how only the western half of the forty acres was annexed by the City in 1921—for more about that, see the High School building. The northeast quarter of this map, platted prior to 1926 as “Supervisor’s Plat of Ridgely Park #1,” even in 1953 had yet to be incorporated.
This subdivision was platted by the Krentel Brothers on the western half of a forty-acre tract known at the time as the Valleau farm; it had previously been owned by Professor of Agriculture Manly Miles. Located north of Oakwood and west of the future site of the original High School, “Ridgely Park” extended Sunset Lane and Forest Street and created the streets of Northlawn, Centerlawn, Southlawn, and Westlawn. It was annexed into the city on May 28, 1921. No significant structures are here.[Beers, p. 15. LSJ, 27 May 1920, p. 2; 27 May 1921, p. 1]
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