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University Of Michigan Law School Self-Guided Walking Tour, University Of Michigan Law School
University Of Michigan Law School Self-Guided Walking Tour, University Of Michigan Law School
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A brochure providing direction for a self-guided walking tour of the University of Michigan Law School.
The Michigan Law Quadrangle: Architecture And Origins, Kathryn Horste
The Michigan Law Quadrangle: Architecture And Origins, Kathryn Horste
About the Buildings
The Michigan Law Quadrangle: Architecture and Origins is intended to combine elements of a history and a guidebook. For those students, alumni, and visitors to Ann Arbor who have long admired the sequestered spaces and the noble corridors ofthe Quadrangle, the book is meant to answer some ofthe many questions that come to mind about its historical styles and the significance of its rich decorations, as well as to serve as a ready source book for those encountering the Quadrangle for the first time. Chapters 2 and 3 recount the history of the Quadrangle as a construction project and the …
The University Of Michigan Law School Walking Tour, University Of Michigan Law School
The University Of Michigan Law School Walking Tour, University Of Michigan Law School
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A brochure designed to direct a walking tour, as well as give historical information for the buildings, the architecture, and to a lesser degree, the people who made the Law Quadrangle what it is.
The Uses Of Art: Medieval Metaphor In The Michigan Law Quadrangle, Ilene H. Forsyth
The Uses Of Art: Medieval Metaphor In The Michigan Law Quadrangle, Ilene H. Forsyth
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Within the architectural diversity of Michigan's Ann Arbor campus, a campus with a spread and a variety as extended as that of the university community itself, there is a place apart: the Cook Law Quad. The distinct ambiance created by the quad's buildings seems at variance with the melange that marks the rest of the campus where the free growth of the university over a long period of time has resulted in structures of various styles and uneven levels of distinction. Yet the quad's special character is not simply a matter of its architectural unity, as is often claimed. There …
The Quadrangle Isn't Square
About the Buildings
Many of those who visit and admire the Law Quadrangle assume that it was modelled by architects York and Sawyer on some existing complex of buildings at Oxford or Cambridge. While the Law School's buildings are in the tradition of English Gothic used at other institutions, they are unique and very much more varied in style and use of ornamental detail than is apparent to the casual observer. A recent descriptive evaluation of the Quadrangle written for an architecture class at Michigan by student Paul Weller demonstrates that the buildings are not only original designs but also "tend to represent …
'Splendor Beneath The Grass' In Michigan, Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
'Splendor Beneath The Grass' In Michigan, Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
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Article in the January 1983 issue of AIA Journal about the design of the University of Michigan Underground Law Library.
Architecture Beneath The Surface, Grace Anderson
Architecture Beneath The Surface, Grace Anderson
About the Buildings
Confronted by the need to expand its library, the law school at the University of Michigan and its architect, Gunnar Birkerts, decided to go underground. The decision followed a precedent set by some other universities that, like Michigan, wanted to preserve open space above ground. Early efforts to raise a building on this site were rejected, Birkerts reports, when it became evident that such a structure would hide the Gothic presence of the existing library and impede visual and pedestrian access to the cherished Law Quadrangle formed by the older library and dormitories. Birkerts seized the underground assignment as a …
Work Picks Up On U-M'S New Law Library Addition, Guy Snyder
Work Picks Up On U-M'S New Law Library Addition, Guy Snyder
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Construction is continuing through the winter of 1979 on the University of Michigan Law Library Addition in Ann Arbor. A three-level underground structure containing approximately 77,500 sq. ft. in total gross area.
The Law Library And Legal Research, Office Of Research Administration, University Of Michigan
The Law Library And Legal Research, Office Of Research Administration, University Of Michigan
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This issue of the Research News continues a series on the University libraries, which began in 1965 with three consecutive issues on the General Library, the Undergraduate Library, and the Clements Library, respectively. In the present issue, devoted to the Law Library, we will attempt to place the Library in the perspective of the discipline that it serves. To do this, we shall briefly discuss legal research and indicate some of the reasons for its great value. We shall then show, in general, how law libraries serve legal researchers and, in particular, how the University's Law Library is set up …
The Law Library, Hobart Coffey
The Law Library, Hobart Coffey
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The history of the Law Library dates from the establishment of the Law School in 1859· In June of that year, having in mind the Law Department that was to open the following October, the Regents appropriated $2,000 for the purchase of law books. That any books were actually bought before the department opened seems unlikely. It is more probable that the first Law Library was composed of a small collection of about 350 volumes donated by Judge Thomas M. Cooley, and duly accepted by the Regents in October, 1859. This first collection is said to have included ten volumes …
Extensive Addition To Library Planned, John Fallon
Extensive Addition To Library Planned, John Fallon
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The following day, March 30, 1859, the motion to put the Committee's plan (to found the Law School of the University of Michigan) into operation was taken from the table and passed by the Board of Regents ... At their June meeting the Regents authorized the Law Committee to purchase up to $2000 worth of law books for the new department ... And to the long projected Law Department at last became a reality. From the humble seed planted in 1859, the present Law School was to grow. Ninety five years to the very month later, the tree which grew …
Dedicatory Exercises Of The Law Quadrangle
Dedicatory Exercises Of The Law Quadrangle
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We have met here today specifically to dedicate Hutchins Hall, the last unit to be erected of a splendid group of buildings presented to the University by Mr. W. W. Cook. The buildings are beautiful, useful, and enduring, but taken altogether, with all that they are in themselves and all that they signify, they represent only one part of a comprehensive contribution to the educational resources of the University of Michigan. It is, therefore, both fitting and imperative that we should on this occasion consider carefully the significance of our whole heritage. Other persons today will speak of Mr. Cook's …
A Book Of The Law Quadrangle At The University Of Michigan, Fred Nathan
A Book Of The Law Quadrangle At The University Of Michigan, Fred Nathan
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William Wilson Cook ardently believed that the future of democratic institutions must depend in large measure upon the ability and integrity of the members of the legal profession. He hoped to improve the quality of the leadership provided by that profession by improving the law schools. As the immediate object of his philanthropy he chose his Alma Mater, The University of Michigan Law School. The Law Quadrangle is the physical embodiment of one aspect of his idea and marks a milestone in legal education. In making possible a close fellowship between lawyers, teachers, and students in an inspiring environment he …
The Law Quadrangle Of The University Of Michigan, Hobart Coffey
The Law Quadrangle Of The University Of Michigan, Hobart Coffey
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I have been asked to speak to you today about the Win. W. Cook Legal Research Library at the University of Michigan. Instead of attempting to describe in words our library building I have chosen to show you some slides, to let you see the building for yourself; and I have decided to-show you pictures not only of the Legal Research Building, but also of the other buildings which form part of the Law Quadrangle, and which are all due to the generosity of 'Wm. W. Cook.
A Book Of The Lawyers Quadrangle At The University Of Michigan
A Book Of The Lawyers Quadrangle At The University Of Michigan
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William W. Cook of the Class of '82, had a dream, and he lived in this dream from its inception until his death. It was to develop a great law school, housed in the most inspiring of buildings and devoted to the ideal of creating leaders of men. He often said, "Intellectual leadership is the greatest problem which faces America today; without leaders we perish." This he placed above all else. With these ideals in mind he proceeded with his work. Architects and artists were dispatched to centers of learning both here and abroad in order that the law school …
World's Finest Educational Building: William W. Cook Legal Research Library Nears Completion As Unit Of Law Quadrangle, The Michigan Alumnus
World's Finest Educational Building: William W. Cook Legal Research Library Nears Completion As Unit Of Law Quadrangle, The Michigan Alumnus
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As the finishing touches are applied, the nearly completed William W. Cook Legal Research Library looms upward impressively from its position at the southern border of the Law Quadrangle.
William W. Cook, University Benefactor, Sawyer Hulme Walter
William W. Cook, University Benefactor, Sawyer Hulme Walter
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Noted New York Alumnus Dies at his Port Chester Home; His Will Makes Huge Additions to Already Most Generous Gifts.
University Of Have New Legal Research Library: William W. Cook, '80, 82l, Donor Of The Lawyers' Club And Martha Cook Dormitory, Makes Gift, The Michigan Alumnus
University Of Have New Legal Research Library: William W. Cook, '80, 82l, Donor Of The Lawyers' Club And Martha Cook Dormitory, Makes Gift, The Michigan Alumnus
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A beautiful Legal Research Library, to cost approximately $1,750,000, is to be the second phase of the development by William W. Cook, '80, '821, of a Law Quadrangle for the housing of the University's Law School. Announcement of the gift of the Library was made by the Board of Regents at its special meeting January 11.
Addresses Delivered At The Dedication Of The Lawyers' Club Of The University Of Michigan, June 13, 1925
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On April 25, 1922, Mr. William W. Cook, a graduate of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts of the University of Michigan in 1880 and of the Law Department in 1882, wrote to the Regents of the University an offer to erect for the University, at his own expense, "a law students' combined club and dormitory building." In the letter it was stated that "All dues and all profit from the operation of the building shall be used exclusively for legal research work." The gift having been accepted, a strikingly beautiful group of buildings with sleeping rooms and …