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Title: Summer tours via the Michigan central, "The Niagara Falls route" ..
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Michigan central railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Summer resorts
Publisher: (n.p.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and is the seat of the Universityof Michigan, the leading institution of learning in the West. The numerous finebuildings and valuable collections of the University have received rich additionsduring the last few years, greatly increasing its educational value and possibili-ties. Its observatory and new library are particularly fine. At Ypsilanti, buttwelve miles beyond, are valuable saline springs, an excellent sanitarium, andthe State Normal School. The buildings that strike the traveler most forcibly, however, are the newraUroad stations. This is not only because their necessary proximity to the rail-road track forces them upon pubUc notice, but because of their manifest beautyand appropriateness, their achnirable construction, and convenient arrangementfor the purposes of their use that make them models of railroad architecture.The solid, gray limestone of Ann Arbor, with its Renaissance towers and turret,the severely plain brick tower, and broad eaves of Battle Qreek, the stone-
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(62) From Chicago to New York. 63 trimmed brick-work of Kalamazoo, and the rustic bowlder rock-work of GrassLake diverse as they are in style and material, are aU thoroughly harmonious,and suggest the comfort, the convenience, and even the cosy prettiness to befoimd in the internal arrangement, furnishing, and decorations. Detroit is not only a city of active enterprise and business prosperity, but acity with a diamatic and picturesque history of two centuries, illustrated by themarble statues of her earher heroes on the facades of her City Hall, and the finegranite and bronze monument opposite to those of a later generation. Enteringthe magnificent depot of the Michigan Central, into which come, also, othertrains and through cars from aU quarters of the compass, and whose massiveyet graceful tower at the foot of Jefferson Avenue is one of the features of thecity, the train is Iun down on board of a powerful steel transfer boat and quicklyferried across the broad river or strait. The

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