{"id":1565,"date":"2024-04-26T20:11:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2026-01-14T04:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T04:37:19","slug":"giltner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/giltner\/","title":{"rendered":"Giltner House, 652 Hillcrest Ave. (1924)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/giltner.med_.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/giltner.med_.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/giltner.med_.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Giltner House, November&nbsp;2003. Photo by Kevin S. Forsyth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"145\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/giltner-w.jpg?resize=145%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1566\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dr. Ward Giltner at his desk, 1919. Image source: <span id=\"msu\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.msu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MSU Archives<\/a>, reprinted in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/sources\/#McC\">McCristal<\/a>, p.\u00a061.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Dr. Ward Giltner joined the faculty of M.A.C. in 1908 as Professor of Bacteriology, and chaired the department (now known as Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) beginning in 1912. From 1923 until his retirement in 1947, Giltner was simultaneously dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine; the college\u2019s former home,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/giltner-hall\/\">Giltner Hall<\/a>, is named for him. A previous Giltner residence (built 1911, no longer standing) was two doors east of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/newman\/\">Newman<\/a>\u00a0house, at 348 Oak Hill Avenue. Nearby Dorothy Lane, originally part of the Giltner property, is named for his daughter Dorothy D. Giltner (M.A.C.\u00a0\u201925).<sup data-fn=\"70f44817-d398-4a8e-9718-a66938edca78\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#70f44817-d398-4a8e-9718-a66938edca78\" id=\"70f44817-d398-4a8e-9718-a66938edca78-link\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes\"><li id=\"70f44817-d398-4a8e-9718-a66938edca78\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/sources\/#Sanborn\">Sanborn<\/a>\u00a0(1926), p.\u00a0276.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/sources\/#M\">Minutes<\/a>, 19\u00a0Jun\u00a01925, p.\u00a0637. <a href=\"#70f44817-d398-4a8e-9718-a66938edca78-link\" aria-label=\"Jump to footnote reference 1\">\u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ward Giltner joined the faculty of M.A.C. in 1908 as Professor of Bacteriology, and chaired the department (now known as Microbiology and Molecular Genetics) beginning in 1912. From 1923 until his retirement in 1947, Giltner was simultaneously dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine; the college\u2019s former home,\u00a0Giltner Hall, is named for him. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"<a href=\\\"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/sources\/#Sanborn\\\">Sanborn<\/a>\u00a0(1926), p.\u00a0276.\u00a0<a href=\\\"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/sources\/#M\\\">Minutes<\/a>, 19\u00a0Jun\u00a01925, p.\u00a0637.\",\"id\":\"70f44817-d398-4a8e-9718-a66938edca78\"}]"},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-significant-structures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5390,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/5390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}