Detroit News Fine Arts Writer Michael Hodges Discusses Michigan’s Vanishing Train Stations: Architecture, History and Sense of Place

Wednesday November 28, 2012: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm

Ann Arbor District Library
Downtown Library Branch
Multi-Purpose Room
343 South Fifth Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

In this lecture and slideshow, Detroit News reporter Michael H. Hodges discusses the functional and stylistic evolution of the train station over the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the range of styles architects employed to both tame and exalt rail transportation.

Hodges’ new coffee-table book, Michigan’s Historic Railroad Stations photographs and profiles 31 depots (including Ann Arbor) across the state.

Michael will also sign copies of the book (which will be for sale) following the event.

Parking lot across Fifth Ave. from Library. New underground parking structure next to library with entrance off Fifth Ave. just north of library

Library website:  www.aadl.org