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 only shows two buildings on its 32 lots.
No trace of Cedar Bank, nor of several neighboring streets to the west in Lansing Township, remains today. By around 1920, Cedar Bank had become the site of the East Lansing city dump, which remained active until the late 1940s or early 1950s. Substantial portions of the northernmost lots were condemned by the state highway department circa 1927 for construction of the Michigan Avenue boulevard. Ultimately the rest of the land was acquired by M.S.U. and beginning in 1954 was replaced by the Brody Neighborhood of residence halls. Today, the former intersection of Almond and Eliza Streets is on the lawn just south of Butterfield Hall’s north wing.1
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