Newberry Hall- Ann Arbor, Michigan
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N 42° 16.605 W 083° 44.451
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The Kelsey Museum of archealogy currently occupies the old Newberry Hall on State Street.
Waymark Code: WM87VE
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 02/16/2010
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The Kelsey Museum is open to the public.
The William E. Upjohn Exhibit Wing of the Kelsey Museum is open to the public during the following hours:
Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 am to 4 pm
Saturdays and Sundays, 1 pm to 4 pm
Closed Mondays and University holidays
Admission is free, but donations are welcomed.
The State of Michigan Preservation Website at (
visit link) tells us:
"Newberry Hall is a massive,asymmetrical, two-story Richardsonian Romanesque building of rough-cut, randomly placed local fieldstone. The building is topped by a hip-roof broken by parapeted cross-gables. The facade is dominated by a projecting three-story corner turret topped by a conical roof. Decorative colonettes, arches, and regularly coursed variegated brick bandcourses break the heaviness of the imposing stone structure.
Newberry Hall is a fine example of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture and is significant to the history of the University of Michigan. Designed by the Detroit architectural firm of Spier & Rohns for the Student Christian Association, the building was completed in 1891 at a cost of $40,000 and named in honor of railroad magnate John S. Newberry. The building also housed the YMCA and was built for one of the earliest Christian student organizations in the nation. Newberry Hall was sold to the university and converted into the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology in 1937, renamed for Francis W. Kelsey, the professor who initiated the fine Near East antiquities collection now housed in the building. "