First City Hall

First City Hall is a historic building in City of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan which is located on West Cross Street. First City Hall is situated nearby to the theater building Frog Island Amphitheater, as well as near the art gallery The Depot.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Michigan Firehouse Museum and Ladies’ Literary Club Building.

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 450 feet west of First City Hall.

Ladies’ Literary Club Building

Historic building

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

The Ladies' Literary Club Building, also known as the William M. Davis House or the Arden H. Ballard House, was built as a private home, and is currently used as the meeting place for the Ladies' Literary Club. Ladies’ Literary Club Building is situated 700 feet southwest of First City Hall.

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 First City Hall.

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 4 miles southeast of First City Hall.

First City Hall

Type: Historic building
Address: 6 West Cross Street, Ypsilanti, MI
Categories: building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: City of Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Southeast Michigan, Michigan, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.24605° or 42° 14′ 46″ north

Longitude

-83.61249° or 83° 36′ 45″ west

Inception

1858

Levels

Open location code

86JR69WQ+C2

OpenStreetMap ID

way 873390350

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=building

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