Ann Arbor Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Michigan Stadium

  Michigan Stadium, the Big House, is the University of Michigan's American football stadium in Ann Arbor and the largest stadium in the United States. This is the largest stadium in the United States and the Western Hemisphere, the third-largest stadium in the world, and the 34th-largest sports venue in the world.

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  University of Michigan Law School

  Picture this campus in Ann Arbor as it stood in 1859, when Michigan Law was founded. Founded in 1859, this institution now offers Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Comparative Law (MCL), Juris Doctor (JD), and Doctor of the Science of Law (SJD) degree programs.

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  Yost Ice Arena

  Ahead of you rises Yost Ice Arena, once the Fielding H. Yost Field House, tucked into the University of Michigan campus here in Ann Arbor. Built in 1923 and named for longtime football coach and athletic director Fielding H. Yost, this building began life as a field house.

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  The Diag

  Your path across campus runs along the diagonal walkways of the Diag, pronounced DY‑ag, in Ann Arbor. Once called the Diagonal Green, the Diag earns its name from the multitude of sidewalks that traverse and border it in diagonal directions, slicing this broad green into angled paths.

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  Michigan Theater

  In front of you rises the Michigan Theater, a movie palace tucked near Central Campus at the University of Michigan. It still shows independent films and stage productions and hosts musical concerts, but step closer and you can feel the layers of its past.

All 34 stops

• Kerrytown (Kerrytown)

  Notice the brick streets and sidewalks beneath you, bordering the Old Fourth Ward historic district in Ann Arbor.

• Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum (downtown Ann Arbor)

  Here in downtown Ann Arbor rises the Hands-On Museum, a place built to turn curious visitors of any age into scientists through hands-on experimentation and…

• Argus Museum (West William)

  Up on the second floor of 525 West William in Ann Arbor, the Argus Museum keeps the story of the Argus camera company.

• Anson Brown Building (Lower Town)

  Anson Brown put up the building you see at 1001 Broadway in 1832, the oldest surviving commercial building in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

• First National Bank Building (downtown Ann Arbor)

  At the corner of South Main Street, ten stories rise above you at 201-205, marking the First National Bank Building.

• The Bookstore Mural (downtown Ann Arbor)

  Look up at the wall of painted faces Richard Wolk brought to this Ann Arbor corner in 1984.

• Michigan Theater (Central Campus)

  In front of you rises the Michigan Theater, a movie palace tucked near Central Campus at the University of Michigan.

• State Theatre (downtown Ann Arbor)

  The Art Deco facade rising above you is the work of architect C. Howard Crane, who gave Ann Arbor this movie palace.

• The Ark (Ann Arbor)

  Your ears are about to enter a room in Ann Arbor, Michigan that has hosted acoustic folk legends since 1965.

• Blind Pig Cafe (Downtown Ann Arbor)

  Behind this modest downtown facade opened, in 1971, a café unlike any other in Ann Arbor.

• Michigan Union (Ann Arbor)

  This fieldstone-and-gable building anchoring South State and South University began in Ann Arbor not as bricks but as an idea.

• The Diag (University of Michigan Central Campus)

  Your path across campus runs along the diagonal walkways of the Diag, pronounced DY‑ag, in Ann Arbor.

• University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor)

  In front of you spreads 94,000 square feet of galleries, one of the largest university art museums in the United States, home to the University…

• Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (University of Michigan central campus)

  Here on the University of Michigan's central campus in Ann Arbor rises a building holding more than 100,000 ancient and medieval artifacts.

• Hill Auditorium (Central Campus)

  Facing you now is Hill Auditorium, a 3,500-seat concert hall on the Central Campus of the University of Michigan, home to its School of Music…

• Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments (University of Michigan)

  Your tour of nearly 3,000 instruments begins inside the University of Michigan's Stearns Collection in Ann Arbor.

• Burton Memorial Tower (Central Campus)

  Your gaze meets a 192-foot memorial shaft rising over 230 North Ingalls Street on Central Campus.

• William L. Clements Library (University of Michigan central campus)

  Here on the University of Michigan's central campus in Ann Arbor stands the William L. Clements Library, home to rare books and manuscripts.

• President's House, University of Michigan (University of Michigan central campus)

  Here at 815 South University Avenue stands the oldest building on the University of Michigan's campus, a white clapboard house serving as the President's official…

• Kempf House Museum (Ann Arbor)

  At 312 South Division Street rises a house known by two names, the Henry Bennett House and the Reuben Kempf House, its Ann Arbor museum…

• Angell Hall (University of Michigan)

  Rising above you here in Ann Arbor is Angell Hall, the University of Michigan's academic anchor.

• University of Michigan Coliseum (Ann Arbor)

  From 1920 to 1973 the University of Michigan Coliseum in Ann Arbor was home to the Michigan varsity ice hockey team.

• University of Michigan Law School (Ann Arbor)

  Picture this campus in Ann Arbor as it stood in 1859, when Michigan Law was founded.

• Martha Cook Building (University of Michigan)

  Martha Cook opened in the fall of 1915 as the first dormitory for women at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

• Old West Side Historic District (Old West Side Historic District)

  Tree-lined streets of clapboard houses stretch around you here in Ann Arbor, a residential pocket earning national recognition in 1972.

• Michigan Stadium (University of Michigan)

  Michigan Stadium, the Big House, is the University of Michigan's American football stadium in Ann Arbor and the largest stadium in the United States.

• Ferry Field (Ann Arbor)

  One afternoon in 1935 Jesse Owens set world records on this turf at Ferry Field in Ann Arbor.

• Yost Ice Arena (University of Michigan)

  Ahead of you rises Yost Ice Arena, once the Fielding H. Yost Field House, tucked into the University of Michigan campus here in Ann Arbor.

• Detroit Observatory (University of Michigan)

  Perched on a hill at Ann Street and Observatory Street, the Detroit Observatory has overlooked the Huron River valley in Ann Arbor since 1854.

• Forest Hill Cemetery (Ann Arbor)

  Civil engineer James Lewis Glenn laid out Forest Hill Cemetery, 65 acres at 415 Observatory Street in Ann Arbor, and it opened in 1857.

• Nichols Arboretum (University of Michigan)

  A deep ravine drops away below you, carved land now known as Nichols Arboretum, the Arb, on the University of Michigan campus.

• Argo Dam (north-central Ann Arbor)

  Ahead of you, a concrete barrage spans the Huron River in Washtenaw County, Michigan, its spillway still holding back the current after a century.

• The Rock (University of Michigan)

  Eli Gallup found this 23-short-ton glacial erratic, the Rock, in the city gravel pit on Pontiac Trail and installed it near the University of Michigan…

• William Palmer Residence (Nichols Arboretum)

  Frank Lloyd Wright designed the William and Mary Palmer House in 1952, and it sits on three lots at the end of a quiet dirt-road…

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