Category: Subdivisions

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…

The land north and west of College Heights and Oakwood was platted circa 1915 into “Bungalow Knolls” by Chace Newman, Ward Giltner, and Elam T. Hallman, Associate Professor of Animal Pathology. Bungalow Knolls was created from the remainder of the ten acres that Chace and Emma Newman had purchased to create College Heights in 1904; the Giltner–Hallman Addition was a portion…

Dwight Harrison, youngest son of the Harrison family, attempted to get in on the residential speculation by platting a portion of his inheritance at the southwest corner of Michigan Avenue and Harrison Road. A pair of crossing streets were named for his late parents, Almond and Eliza Harrison. This subdivision never really took off—Newman’s 1915 map…

Robert S. Shaw platted a portion of his 160-acre farm into this subdivision using names from his ancestral Scotland. It was annexed into the City of East Lansing on November 2, 1926. In subsequent years the neighborhood’s name has been condensed into “Glencairn.” Gov. George Romney House, 1045 Rosewood Ave. (1945) Charles W. Bachman House, 929 Roxburgh (1937)…

Just west of Chesterfield Hills, a twenty-acre portion of the John H. Cowley farm was acquired by the “Oak Ridge Land Company” in 1919 for development. Jacob Schepers was the company president. Oak Ridge was soon advertized as having “113 lots to sell” in a plat where “all streets are boulevarded.” The plat consists of Highland Avenue from Grand River…

A large section of the Chittenden farm with the Bailey school lot in its southwest corner. Like Ardson Heights, which had the same designer, Strathmore avoided the rigid cardinal-point layout of much of the city and features curving, tree-lined streets. It was platted in four sections between 1925 and 1947, a surprising delay given that the land was incorporated…