Betsy Barbour House
42°16′34.44″N 83°44′27.93″W / 42.2762333°N 83.7410917°W
Betsy Barbour House (Barbour) is a residence hall operated by University of Michigan Housing at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Hall Profile
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Barbour houses approximately 120 occupants, 70% of which are freshmen. The residence is one of three all-female residence halls on campus. The hall contains a laundry room, two lounges, front desk, and multiple kitchenettes. It shares resources with its next-door sister hall Helen Newberry House, which contains the exercise/dance room, kitchen, and computing site.
Location
[edit]Located just across the street from Angell Hall, Barbour is one of the closest residence halls to UM's central campus. The street address is 420 South State Street.
History
[edit]Betsy Barbour Dormitory was Designed by World Renown architect Albert Kahn in 1917. The main entry was altered in 1930 and a passageway connecting Betsy Barbour to Helen Newberry was designed in 1933. (Albert Kahn Project number 829_Albert Kahn Associates project list ) Barbour was built in 1920, as a gift from Levi Barbour, a former UM Regent. One of his sponsored students from Japan, Kikuchi Matsu, had died of tuberculosis as a result of inadequate living conditions at UM, and this prompted his decision to help construct new housing.[1][2] Albert Kahn Project number 829_Albert Kahn Associates project list updated 2020_03_12)
References
[edit]- ^ Tano Jodai and Her Graduate Education Abroad: The Significance of Studying Abroad for Japanese Women's Higher Education in the 1910s and 1920s by Shimada Noriko、Japan Women's University, "日本女子大学紀要. 文学部" 56, 86-71, 2007-03-20
- ^ "UM Residence Hall Overviews". Archived from the original on 2006-09-01. Retrieved 2007-01-12. UM Residence Hall Overviews. Accessed Jan 12, 2007.dead link
- "UM Residence Halls Overview". Archived from the original on September 1, 2006. Retrieved January 12, 2007.