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 Women’s Cooperative Houses (1936–1956)
A few years before independent cooperative houses began to organize, Michigan State College launched a cooperative housing project of its own. Over a twenty-year span, some sixteen houses on and off campus were cooperatively managed and provided room and board to several thousand women. It’s a little-known piece of M.S.U.’s student housing history. Read More.