Category: Landmark Structures

Christian M. Krentel (1871–1943, M.A.C. ’99) was the eldest of the four Krentel Brothers. He and his wife, May Evalin Hanford, married in 1908 and had one son. May passed away in 1941, and Christian remained here until his death in 1943. The C. M. Krentel House is an East Lansing Landmark Structure.

This house’s first occupants were Andrew and Lillian Krentel. Andrew was instructor in the College wood shop for many years, and one of the elder generation of Krentel Brothers. This house might have been built by the Krentels as well, although unfortunately the city’s landmark designation is not specific. Benjamin Alden Faunce, like his real estate…

In 1900 a new school district, later to become East Lansing Public Schools, was formed as an alternative to the distant Lansing and Meridian Township schools. Demonstrating the paramount importance of education to the college’s faculty families, formation of the school district preceded the incorporation of the City by several years. The first Central School on this…

Architect Harold A. Childs created this house, one of his earliest designs, for his in-laws Samuel and Lucy Cochrane. After their deaths in 1914–15, it became Harold and Ethel (Cochrane) Childs’ own residence. Their daughter, Lelle Childs Robertson, owned and lived in the home for decades until her death at age 88 in 2001. Harold Childs…

Charles W. Bachman Jr (1892–1985) was a collegiate football coach whose noteworthy thirty-five-year career included stints at Northwestern, Kansas State, Florida, Michigan State, and Hillsdale. As head coach at Michigan State College from 1933 to 1946, he amassed a record of 70–34–10. Famously, he outfitted his Spartans in gold and black uniforms instead of the…

This house, the only surviving example of a dozen private residences which once stood on College Delta, might be more appropriately called the Bogue–Landon–May House. Its earliest known occupants were Ernest Everett Bogue (1864–1907, M.A.C.’s first Professor of Forestry) and his wife Myra. The Bogues only resided here for a few years before moving in 1905 to “a…

This house in “Queen Anne style with its narrow wood siding, bay windows, and decorative brackets,” has been called “an excellent example of the homes which used to line Grand River Avenue prior to commercial development.” It was built in 1909 about five doors east of the Abbot Road intersection for owners Chalmers M. and…

James Grant Hays, Jr. (1890–1975, M.A.C. ’11) was born and raised in Swissvale, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the Agricultural College in 1911 and two years later became proprietor of his own registered Holstein dairy farm near Howell. The 120-acre farm was described as “self-sufficient” since, in addition to milking about forty cows daily, the venture “grew…