Michigan Central Freighthouse

Michigan Central Freighthouse is a historic building in Washtenaw County, Southeast Michigan, Michigan which is located on Market Place. Michigan Central Freighthouse is situated nearby to the square Depot Town Plaza, as well as near the art gallery Nelson Amos Studio.

Type: Historic building
Also known as: “Ypsilanti Freighthouse” and “Ypsilanti Michigan Central Freighthouse”
Address: 435 Market Place, Ypsilanti, MI

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum and Michigan Firehouse Museum.

Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum

Museum

Photo: Deedeebee, CC BY 3.0.

The Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum in Ypsilanti, Michigan is an automotive museum that features cars assembled at the nearby Willow Run Plant and vehicles made by Hudson Motors. Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum is situated 660 feet southeast of Michigan Central Freighthouse.

Michigan Firehouse Museum

Museum

Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Michigan Firehouse Museum and Education Center is a fire museum dedicated to the history of firefighting in the U.S. state of Michigan. It incorporates the former Ypsilanti Fire Station, a Romanesque Revival-style fire station built in 1898. Michigan Firehouse Museum is situated 1,100 feet west of Michigan Central Freighthouse.

Frog Island Park

Park

Photo: Cmadler, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Charter Township.

Ypsilanti

Photo: Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0.

Ypsilanti commonly shortened to Ypsi, is a city in Michigan, six miles east of Ann Arbor. "Ypsilanti" commonly refers to either or both of the City of Ypsilanti and the Charter Township of Ypsilanti, which lies mostly south of the city, with small portions to both the east and west of the city, and may also include neighboring parts of other townships.

Ypsilanti Charter Township

Town

Photo: Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0.

Ypsilanti Charter Township is a charter township of Washtenaw County, in the state of Michigan. The population was 55,670 at the 2020 census. The city of Ypsilanti is mostly surrounded by the township, but the two are administered autonomously. Ypsilanti Charter Township is situated 3 miles south of Michigan Central Freighthouse.

Rawsonville

Hamlet

Rawsonville is an unincorporated community on the boundary of Washtenaw County and Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. Small parts of the historic community of Rawsonville lie under Belleville Lake, which is an artificial reservoir created in 1925 when the Eastern Michigan Edison Company built the French Landing Dam and Powerhouse along the Huron River. Rawsonville is situated 3½ miles southeast of Michigan Central Freighthouse.

Michigan Central Freighthouse

Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Washtenaw County, Southeast Michigan, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.24681° or 42° 14′ 49″ north

Longitude

-83.61013° or 83° 36′ 37″ west

Inception

1878

Levels

Operator

Ypsilanti

Open location code

86JR69WQ+PW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 113287233

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=building

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Depot Town Plaza and Nelson Amos Studio.

Nearby Places

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