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 Marygrove College - Detroit, MI
N 42° 24.928 W 083° 09.381
17T E 322578 N 4698159
Marygrove College was a Catholic private college located in Detroit, Michigan.
Waymark Code: WM18TW7
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 09/26/2023
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95. MARYGROVE COLLEGE, 8425 W. McNichols Road, secluded in an 80-acre park in a residential section, is Michigan's oldest Roman Catholic college for women. the enrollment for 1938-9 was 535. The quiet woodland setting, the white stone buildings, impressive in their chaste and simple architecture, and a tall shaft topped by the statue of Mary Immaculate reflect the religious ideals of the college, which is conducted by the sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The institution, opened on its present site in 1927, is an outgrowth of St. Mary's Academy at Monroe (see Tour 9C), founded by Reverend Louis Florent Gillet in two little log cabins, on November 10, 1845.
The design of the buildings is modified English gothic and, with the exception of the power house, they are built of Bedford limestone laid in a random ashlar. The four-story Liberal Arts Building, facing McNichols Road, is crowned by four beautiful Gothic turrets. The two front towers, connected by a lacework of ornament, house an illuminated clock and Westminster chimes. This building contains the executive offices, library, chapel, auditorium, museum, classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories, and studios.
Half-hidden among the trees to the west of the Liberal Arts Building is the residence hall, named Madame Cadillac Hall in honor of the wife of Detroit's founder. Madame Cadillac Hall, which represents the Tudor Gothic as found in the English manor, has accommodations for 250 women. The faculty house, the power plant, and the engineer's residence complete the campus buildings.-Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State 1941
Marygrove College went through many changes since the Michigan guide was published. It went coed, added college sports, but eventually was forced to close after the fall semester in 2019.
Book: Michigan
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 281-2
Year Originally Published: 1941
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