Ypsilanti’s Ainsworth site has seen a parade of owners and uses
Ypsilanti is absolutely oozing history, as is evidenced by the Ainsworth building. Excerpt: An impressive building stands at 7-11 W. Michigan Ave., just east of the city center and just west of the Huron River. Today, the building is the home of the Bank of Ann Arbor and Eleven West Salon and Spa. The building is best remembered as a restaurant; its original use as a mill is now almost forgotten. The property on which the building stands was purchased by Oliver Ainsworth and his business partners in 1886. On the site they built a fine mill and elevator, which was destroyed by fire on Dec. 3, 1887. The building had only been completed six months before. “Their loss was $10,000, and they were left without facilities in midwinter; but by May, within a year from the completion of the first building, they had the second one in operation, more complete than its predecessor,” noted The Ypsilanti Commercial of Nov. 24, 1893. Read the rest of the story here.
Ypsilanti is absolutely oozing history, as is evidenced by the Ainsworth building.
Excerpt:
An impressive building stands at 7-11 W. Michigan Ave., just east of the city center and just west of the Huron River. Today, the building is the home of the Bank of Ann Arbor and Eleven West Salon and Spa. The building is best remembered as a restaurant; its original use as a mill is now almost forgotten.
The property on which the building stands was purchased by Oliver Ainsworth and his business partners in 1886. On the site they built a fine mill and elevator, which was destroyed by fire on Dec. 3, 1887. The building had only been completed six months before.
“Their loss was $10,000, and they were left without facilities in midwinter; but by May, within a year from the completion of the first building, they had the second one in operation, more complete than its predecessor,” noted The Ypsilanti Commercial of Nov. 24, 1893.
Read the rest of the story here.
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