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The freeway runs through a wooded area and then after about one mile (1.6 km), it meets US 23 at an interchange in Ann Arbor Township that marks the northern terminus of the business loop. [4] [5] Washtenaw Avenue facing east. In 1962, the northern and eastern freeway bypass of Ann Arbor was completed.
The University of Michigan's campus in Ann Arbor is divided into four main areas: the Central Campus area, the North Campus area, the North Medical Campus area, and Ross Athletic Campus area. The campus areas include more than 500 major buildings, [107] with a combined area of more than 37.48 million square feet (860 acres; 3.482 km 2). [108]
The Ann Arbor Land Company gifted the fledgling University of Michigan forty acres of land at this spot in the late 1830s. The university accepted, and in 1840, the first four buildings, residences for faculty, were constructed. A dormitory/classroom building was soon added, and classes began on campus in 1841.
[3] [4] Farther north, it crosses a line of the Ann Arbor Railroad [7] near Azalia as the trunkline runs to the east of Milan at the Monroe-Washtenaw county line. [3] [4] North of Milan, the freeway crosses a line of the Norfolk Southern Railway. [7] The landscape takes on a more suburban residential character as the freeway approaches the Ann ...
The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor would provide the necessary liberal arts and professional courses to complete a University of Michigan bachelor's or master's degree. [9] Construction on the Dearborn Center began on May 22, 1958, [ 11 ] and on October 1 of that year, William E. Stirton was appointed its first director.
East of that freeway, it follows two-lane Ann Arbor Road past the campus of East Jackson Secondary School. The highway turns more northerly through a rural section of Jackson County. It is bounded by fields interspersed with some businesses. Ann Arbor Road turns eastward to run parallel to the south side of I-94 near Gilletts Lake.
The Blake Transit Center (BTC) is a major public transit station in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is the main hub for TheRide, serving as the terminus and transfer point for 17 Ann Arbor-based routes in the system's hub-and-spoke bus network. [1] It also serves as a transfer point for multiple intercity bus services.
The former Alexander G. Ruthven Museums Building on Central Campus, looking towards the northeast. The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History, formerly known as the Exhibit Museum of Natural History, began in the mid-19th century and expanded greatly with the donation of 60,000 specimens by Joseph Beal Steere, a U-M alumnus, in the 1870s.