{"id":1782,"date":"2024-04-26T20:11:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2025-04-15T18:50:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T18:50:13","slug":"vedder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/vedder\/","title":{"rendered":"H. K. Vedder House, 447 Charles St. (1922)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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H. K. Vedder House, November 2003. Photo by Kevin S. Forsyth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Herman Klock Vedder (1866\u20131937) graduated from Cornell University and worked as a civil engineer, focussing mainly on bridges and hydraulics, before becoming Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering at M.A.C. in 1891, which at the time was a single department. During his tenure Vedder tirelessly sought to expand the program and was instrumental in separating civil engineering from mathematics with the creation of the Department of Civil Engineering in 1909, which he then headed until his retirement circa 1925.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring his service at M.A.C. he constructed a sewer system, directed numerous surveys, constructed bridges, designed systems of plumbing; for outside parties inspecting and building bridges, plotted city subdivisions [including the Oakwood<\/a> plat], investigated the water power of streams; engineering for electric and steam railroads; planned railroad for Lansing manufactures; state examiner of plots 1907 to 1910.\u201d2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

H. K. Vedder and his wife, n\u00e9e Kate Humphrey Dodd (1866\u20131923), raised two daughters, Norma (M.A.C.\u00a0\u201910) and Katharine (M.A.C.\u00a0\u201916); the younger married “Chappie” Chapman<\/a> in 1919. Prior to living here they resided at \u2116\u00a02\u00a0Faculty Row<\/a>. At one time he also served as president of the East Lansing school board, and he was also on the board of directors of the Michigan State Bank at East Lansing<\/a>.3<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The H. K. Vedder House is an East Lansing Landmark Structure<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

  1. Beal<\/a>, p.\u00a0433.\u00a0Kuhn<\/a>, p.\u00a0151. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  2. Beal<\/a>, p.\u00a0433.\u00a0Towar<\/a>, p.\u00a044. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li>
  3. Minutes<\/a>, 12\u00a0Jul\u00a01922, p\u00a0546.\u00a0Beal<\/a>, p.\u00a0433. Yakeley<\/a> (1916), pp. 102, 145. \u21a9\ufe0e<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n

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    Herman Klock Vedder (1866\u20131937) graduated from Cornell University and worked as a civil engineer, focussing mainly on bridges and hydraulics, before becoming Professor of Mathematics and Civil Engineering at M.A.C. in 1891, which at the time was a single department. During his tenure Vedder tirelessly sought to expand the program and was instrumental in separating […]<\/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\":\"Beal<\/a>, p.\u00a0433.\u00a0Kuhn<\/a>, p.\u00a0151.\",\"id\":\"0ed0ba47-2c07-4ab4-b976-bb2d6dd05682\"},{\"content\":\"Beal<\/a>, p.\u00a0433.\u00a0Towar<\/a>, p.\u00a044.\",\"id\":\"f02c8eae-8785-4302-b9ea-ab6281d57f4e\"},{\"content\":\"Minutes<\/a>, 12\u00a0Jul\u00a01922, p\u00a0546.\u00a0Beal<\/a>, p.\u00a0433. Yakeley<\/a> (1916), pp. 102, 145.\",\"id\":\"09150f4a-b342-425c-9f5c-3699591a7e01\"}]"},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landmark-structures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","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=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4450,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/4450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinforsyth.net\/ELMAC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}