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. The East Lansing Historic Commission listed no significant structures here.¹

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Beers, p. 15. LSJ, 27 May 1920, p. 2; 27 May 1921, p. 1. ↩︎

Subdivisions

Ridgely Park (1920)

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