From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ypsilanti, Michigan
Ypsilanti, Michigan
City of Ypsilanti Elevation 719 ft (219 m)
— City — Population (2010)
• Total 19,435
• Density 4,489.0/sq mi (1,733.2/km2)
Time zone Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5)
DST)
• Summer (DST) Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)
ZIP Code 48197, 48198
Area code(s) 734
FIPS code 26-89140[1]
GNIS feature ID 1616910[2]
Website http://cityofypsilanti.com/
Ypsilanti ( /ˌɪpsɨˈlænti/,[3] often mispronounced
Historic Depot Town
/ˌjɪpsɨˈlænti/),[4] commonly shortened to Ypsi is a city in
Ypsi,
Washtenaw County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of
the 2010 census, the city population was 19,435. The city
is bounded to the north by the Charter Township of Su-
perior and on the west, south, and east by the Charter
Township of Ypsilanti. Ypsilanti is also 6 miles (9.7 km)
Flag east of Ann Arbor.
Nickname(s): Ypsi, Ypsitucky The geographic grid center of Ypsilanti is the inter-
Motto: Pride. Diversity. Heritage. section of the Huron River and Michigan Avenue, the lat-
ter of which connects downtown Detroit, Michigan with
Chicago, Illinois, and through Ypsilanti is partially coex-
tensive with U.S. Route 12 Business and M-17.
On July 23, 2007 Governor Jennifer Granholm an-
nounced that Ypsilanti, along with the cities of Caro and
Clio, was chosen by the Michigan State Housing Develop-
ment Authority (MSHDA) to take part in the Blueprints
for Michigan’s Downtowns program. The award provides
for an economic development consultant to assist Ypsi-
lanti in developing a growth and job creation strategy for
Coordinates: 42°14′34″N 83°37′6″W / 42.24278°N the downtown area.[5]
83.61833°W / 42.24278; -83.61833Coordinates: 42°14′34″N
83°37′6″W / 42.24278°N 83.61833°W / 42.24278; -83.61833
History
Country United States
State Michigan Originally a trading post established in 1809 by Gabriel
County Washtenaw Godfroy, a French-Canadian fur trader from Montreal, a
First settled 1823 permanent settlement was established on the east side
Incorporated village 1832 of the Huron River in 1823 by Major Thomas Woodruff.
Incorporated city 1858 It was incorporated into the Territory of Michigan as
Grove.
the village Woodruff’s Grove A separate community a
Government
short distance away on the west side of the river was
• Mayor Paul Schreiber
established in 1825 under the name "Ypsilanti", after
• City Manager Edward B. Koryzno, Jr.
Demetrius Ypsilanti, a hero in the Greek War of Indepen-
Area dence. Woodruff’s Grove changed its name to Ypsilanti
• Total 4.5 sq mi (11.7 km2) in 1829, the year its namesake effectively won the Greek
• Land 4.3 sq mi (11.1 km2) war, and the two communities eventually merged.
• Water 0.2 sq mi (0.5 km2)
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A bust of Demetrius Ypsilanti stands between a Greek
and a US flag at the base of the landmark Ypsilanti Water
Tower. The tower is often referred to as "The Brick Dick"
because of its unique use of brick in the Queen Anne style
and phallic resemblance; it was named the world’s most
phallic building in a contest held by Cabinet magazine.[6]
Statue commemorating Harriet Tubman in Ypsilanti, Michi-
gan.
University. He was convicted in 1969, but of only one
of the murders.
• 1972-Eastern Michigan University professor Henry
Bust of Demetrius Ypsilanti at the Ypsilanti Water Tower
Aldridge creates the Electronic Media and Film
Studies program at EMU.
• 1809 - Trading post established by French-Canadian
Gabriel Godfroy from Montreal
Automotive history
• 1823 - Village of Woodruff’s Grove platted
• April 21, 1825 - Plat recorded under the name Ypsilanti has played an important role in the automobile
Ypsilanti industry. From 1920-1922, Apex Motors produced the
• 1827 - Ypsilanti Township organized "ACE" car. It was in Ypsilanti that Preston Tucker (whose
• June 19, 1832 - Woodruff’s Grove re-organized and family owned the Ypsilanti Machine Tool Company) de-
incorporated as the Village of Ypsilanti signed and built the prototypes for his Tucker ’48. Tuck-
• 1849 - Eastern Michigan University founded as er’s story was related in the film Tucker: The Man and His
Michigan State Normal School Dream, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
• February 4, 1858 - Village of Ypsilanti reincorporated In 1945, Henry J. Kaiser and Joseph W. Frazer bought
as a city the nearby Willow Run B-24 Liberator bomber plant from
• 1890 - Michigan’s first Interurban, the Ypsi-Ann, Ford Motor Company, and started to make Kaiser and
begins service Frazer model cars in 1947. The last Kaiser car made in Yp-
• 1960-Tom Monaghan founds Domino’s Pizza as silanti rolled off the assembly line in 1953, when the com-
DomiNick’s Pizza at 507 W. Cross St, Ypsilanti. pany merged with Willys-Overland and moved produc-
• 1967-1969 - Ypsilanti resident John Norman Collins is tion to Toledo, Ohio. General Motors purchased the Kais-
suspected of being the perpetrator of the Michigan er Frazer plant, and converted it into its Hydramatic Divi-
murders, a series of murders of coeds at the sion (now called its Powertrain division), beginning pro-
University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan duction in November 1953. The GM Powertrain Division
ceased production at this facility in 2010.
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Ypsilanti is also the location of the last Hudson au- 1920 7,413 19.0%
tomobile dealership. Today, the former dealership is the 1930 10,143 36.8%
site of the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum. The 1940 12,121 19.5%
museum is the home to an original Fabulous Hudson Hor-
1950 18,302 51.0%
net race car, which inspired the character "Doc Hudson"
in the recent animated film Cars developed by Pixar. 1960 20,957 14.5%
1970 29,538 40.9%
Political history 1980 24,031 −18.6%
In the early 1970s, along with neighboring city of Ann 1990 24,818 3.3%
Arbor, the citizens reduced the penalty for the use and 2000 22,362 −9.9%
sale of marijuana to $5[7] (the Ypsilanti Marijuana Initia- 2010 19,435 −13.1%
tive; see also the Human Rights Party). When Ypsilanti Sources: United States Census [8] (1900–2000)
prosecuted a man possessing 100 pounds of cannabis un- U.S. Census Bureau[9] (2009)
der state law, the defense argued he should have been
As of Census 2010 Ypsilanti had a population that was
charged under Ypsilanti’s ordinance. The trial judge de-
59.39% Non-Hispanic white, 29.17% Black, 0.58%Native
clared the ordinance’s requirement that Ypsilanti prose-
American, 3.38% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 0.22% Non-
cute only under city law unenforceable. An appeal court
Hispanics of some other race, 4.26% two or more races
upheld the trial judge’s ruling. Later, Ypsilanti City Coun-
and 3.90% Hispanic or Latino.
cil, using its power of codification, deleted the ordi-
As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 22,362 people,
nance.[citation needed]
8,551 households, and 3,377 families residing in the city.
In 1979, Faz Husain was elected to the Ypsilanti city
The population density was 5,081.5 per square mile
council, the first Muslim and the first native of India to
(1,962.3/km²). There were 9,215 housing units at an av-
win elected office in Michigan.
erage density of 2,094.0 per square mile (808.6/km²). The
In the 1990s Ypsilanti became the first city in Michi-
racial makeup of the city was 61.40% White, 30.58%
gan to pass a living wage ordinance.
African American, 0.44% Native American, 3.18% Asian,
In the late 1990s, the city adopted an ordinance to
0.07% Pacific Islander, 1.32% from other races, and 3.01%
ban discrimination in housing, employment and public
from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race
accommodation on the basis of sexual orientation, gen-
were 2.47% of the population. 13.6% were of German,
der identity/transgender status, body weight (i.e., being
6.8% Irish, 6.4% English and 5.5% Polish ancestry accord-
obese or underweight). Two ballot measures to repeal the
ing to Census 2000.
ordinance were led and bankrolled by conservatives, in-
There were 8,551 households out of which 19.2% had
cluding Tom Monaghan. Both measures failed, the sec-
children under the age of 18 living with them, 23.0% were
ond by a larger percentage than the first.[citation needed]
married couples living together, 13.2% had a female
householder with no husband present, and 60.5% were
Geography non-families. 40.4% of all households were made up of in-
dividuals and 6.2% had someone living alone who was 65
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city
years of age or older. The average household size was 2.15
has a total area of 4.51 square miles (11.7 km²). 4.32
and the average family size was 2.96.
square miles (11.2 km²) of it is land and 0.18 square miles
In the city the population was spread out with 15.9%
(0.5 km²) is water. The total area is 4.19% water. The
under the age of 18, 38.2% from 18 to 24, 26.4% from 25
Huron River flows through both the City of Ypsilanti and
to 44, 12.4% from 45 to 64, and 7.0% who were 65 years of
the Charter Township of Ypsilanti.
age or older. The median age was 24 years. For every 100
Ypsilanti is located at 42°14′N 83°37′W / 42.24°N
females there were 89.8 males. For every 100 females age
83.62°W / 42.24; -83.62, in the western reaches of the
18 and over, there were 86.2 males.
Detroit/Windsor metropolitan area. Suburban develop-
The median income for a household in the city was
ment between Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor, via Washtenaw
$28,610, and the median income for a family was $40,793.
Avenue and Packard Road, has been unbroken since the
Males had a median income of $30,328 versus $26,745 for
late 1960s.
females. The per capita income for the city was $16,692.
About 16.9% of families and 25.8% of the population were
Demographics below the poverty line, including 30.1% of those under
age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over.
Historical populations
Census Pop. %±
1900 7,378 — Education
1910 6,230 −15.6% See also: Ypsilanti District Library
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K-12 education
Ypsilanti Public Schools serve residents of the city, as
well as parts of Ypsilanti Township.
Higher education
University Park on EMU campus.
A college town, Ypsilanti is home to Eastern Michigan
University, founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal
School. Today, Eastern Michigan University has 18,000+
undergraduate and more than 4800 graduate stu-
dents.[10] As well, Ypsilanti is home to a Washtenaw Com-
munity College (WCC) sponsored off-site extension cen-
ter.
The LINGUIST List
Ypsilanti is also the home to the main editing site of the
Linguist List, a major online resource for the field of lin-
guistics. It is mostly staffed by graduate students who at-
tend Eastern Michigan University and runs several data-
base websites and mailing lists.[11]
The Ypsilanti Water Tower and bust of Demetrius Ypsilanti.
Culture
meeting rooms and offices. In 2006 the adjacent DTE
It has been said that Ypsilanti is the Brooklyn to Ann
building was renovated with "Cool Cities Initiative" mon-
Arbor’s Manhattan.[12] Comparable to the gentrification
ey and is in the process of being incorporated into the
causing many artists, poets, musicians, and hipsters to
center’s activities.
flee the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City to
Domino’s Pizza was founded in Ypsilanti in 1960 near
areas like Bushwick, nearby Ann Arbor has experienced
the campus of Eastern Michigan University.
massive increases in land value and taxes over the last
Painter Fay Kleinman moved to Ypsilanti in the late
several decades. Despite Ann Arbor’s reputation in the
1980s with her husband, pianist Emanuel Levenson.
region as a bohemian cultural center, many creative peo-
Author Kurt Vonnegut has a chapter titled "Girl From
ple have been driven out of the city to Ypsilanti due to
Ypsilanti" in his 2005 book A Man Without a Country
these changes. A vibrant, underground arts scene has be-
Author/comic Steve Martin mentions Ypsilanti in his
gun to emerge as a result.[13] This community gathers
short story "A Public Apology" from his book Pure Drivel
semiannually at the juried Shadow Art Fair held at The
Noted comic strip artist and film animation pioneer
Corner Brewery.[14]
Winsor McCay received his first and only formal art
Since 1979, the city has become known for summer
training in Ypsilanti at Michigan State Normal College,
festivals in the part of the city called "Depot Town",
now Eastern Michigan University. He is best remembered
which is adjacent to both Riverside and Frog Island Parks
for the strip Little Nemo In Slumberland and the early
along the banks of the Huron River. Festivals include the
cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur.
annual Heritage Festival, the Elvis Festival, the Orphan
Depot Town in Ypsilanti is also home to the Michigan
Car Festival, the Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer
ElvisFest every summer.
Festival, the former Frog Island Festival, and a Latino fes-
tival.
Overlooking Riverside Park is the non-profit River- In music
side Arts Center. Established in 1994 through the efforts
• The Ypsilanti City Council declared Lee Osler’s "Back
of the Ypsilanti Downtown Development Authority and
To Ypsilanti" the city’s official song in 1983.
several public spirited citizens, the Riverside boasts a 115
seat black box theater, a sizable art gallery and some
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Film Knocked Up" (2007). It is purported that Joe
Henry formerly lived in Ypsilanti.
• Daniel May’s ’Girl From Ypsilanti’, from the Fight
Club soundtrack.
• The president of the Motown Alumni Association
Billy J. Wilson was raised throughout the city and
township. Wilson also played bass guitar for stars
such as Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, The
Contours, Marv Johnson, Valerie Barrymore and the
Foundation of Funk, and other superstar artists of
the Motown era, along with a group titled Bigfoot.
The Ypsilanti based group also had a drummer Stevie
Bray that went on to produce mega star Madonna.
• Musician Elvis Costello references Ypsilanti in his
song "Sulphur to Sugarcane" from his 2009 album
Secret, Profane & Sugarcane. The lyric goes as follows:
"The women in Poughkeepsie take their clothes off
when they´re tipsy / But I hear in Ypsilanti they
don´t wear any panties"
• Musician, author, performance artist, and puppeteer
Patrick Elkins hails from Ypsilanti.
• Noted harpsichord maker John Challis originated in
Ypsilanti.
• Singer-songwriter John Hammink performed in
various acts and solo around Ypsilanti in the early
1990s.
In TV
• An episode of the TV series "Supernatural" called "A
Very Supernatural Christmas" partially takes place
RANDY, by Fay Kleinman, Ypsilanti District Library collection in Ypsilanti.
The file File:Portrait of Randy Napoleon by Fay Kleinman.jpg • An episode of the TV series God, The Devil and Bob
has an uncertain copyright status and may be deleted. You can called "Lonely At The Top", God poses as a human
comment on its removal. named Arthur who transferred from Ypsilanti.
• A TV commercial created by Google called "Dave
• Iggy Pop grew up in the Coachville trailer park on Strenski: New Energy for Detroit", it features Dave
Carpenter Road in Pittsfield Township (Ypsilanti) Strenski the founder of Solar Ypsi talking about the
during his teenage years at the start of his music impact of solar projects on Ypsilanti.
career.
• Ypsilanti is the subject of Sufjan Stevens’ song, "For Sites of interest
The Widows In Paradise, For The Fatherless In
Ypsilanti", on his 2003 album Michigan. Ypsilanti has the second largest contiguous historic dis-
• A portrait of jazz guitarist Randy Napoleon, painted trict in the state of Michigan, behind only the much larg-
by his grandmother, Fay Kleinman, is part of the er city of Grand Rapids. The historic district includes
permanent art collection of the Ypsilanti District both downtown Ypsilanti, along Michigan Avenue, and
Library. Napoleon performed his first public gig as the Depot Town area adjacent to Frog Island Park and
leader at the age of twelve under a tent at the Riverside Park, which features many specialty shops,
Ypsilanti Heritage Festival, an event sponsored by bars and grills, and a farmers’ market.
WEMU radio. The Ypsilanti Water Tower, adjacent to the campus
• The Deluxtone Rockets originated in Ypsilanti. of Eastern Michigan University, holds the unique distinc-
• Noise musicians Wolf Eyes hail from Ypsilanti. tion of being the winner of the Most Phallic Building con-
• Joe Henry performed "Ypsilanti", an instrumental test.
track included on the Loudon Wainwright III album, Other sites of interest include:
"Strange Weirdos: Music From and Inspired by the • Ypsilanti District Library
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Local media
Ypsilanti is served by daily newspapers from Detroit. Yp-
silanti once had its own daily newspaper, the Ypsilanti
Press, but that paper closed in the 1990s. Upon closing,
the Press sold its masthead, archives and subscriber list
to the Ann Arbor News, which then began publishing an
Ypsilanti edition. The Ann Arbor News ceased publica-
tion on July 23, 2009; it was replaced by a new Internet-
based news operation, AnnArbor.com, which also pro-
duces print editions on Thursdays and Sundays. A weekly
newspaper, the Ypsilanti Courier, is published every
Thursday by Heritage Media from their Saline, MI offices.
There are also two Internet-based news outlets that cov-
The new addition to the historic building which houses the er local Ypsilanti news, sports and politics: Yp-
Michigan Firehouse Museum was completed in the summer of siNews.com, which started in August 2006, and the Ypsi-
2002. lanti Citizen, which started in November 2008.
Local radio stations include:
• WEMU FM (89.1 FM), a public radio station, which
broadcasts jazz and blues music and NPR news from
Eastern Michigan University
• WQBR (610 AM carrier-current and University Cable
Channel 10), EMU’s student-run radio station
• WDEO (990 AM), a Catholic religious radio station
targeting the Detroit area
• WSDS (1480 AM), licensed to nearby Salem and a
former longtime country-music station, now
broadcasts Spanish-language popular music as "La
Explosiva" and has studios in Ypsilanti.
• WAAM (1600 AM), a conservative Talk and News
station serving Washtenaw County. Broadcasting
local talk, sports and music shows. Owned by First
Broadcasting.
Transportation
Starkweather Chapel, in Richardsonian Romanesque architec-
tonic style, in Highland Cemetery
• Ypsilanti Historical Museum (housed in a Victorian
mansion built in 1860)
• Automotive Heritage Museum
• Michigan Firehouse Museum
• Ypsilanti Water Tower (built in 1890)
• Ypsilanti Food Co-op
• Highland Cemetery
• Pease Auditorium (on the campus of Eastern
Michigan University)
• Starkweather Hall, built in 1896 as a student
religious center (currently housing EMU Honors Street map of Ypsilanti
College)
Interstates
• I-94 bypasses the city to the south.
US highways
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leading to renaming the event as simply "The Jam-
• US 12 travels east to Detroit and west toward boree."[18][19][20]
Chicago; it runs concurrently with I-94 from exit 181
to the west of the city to exit 185 to the east of the
city. Sister cities
• US 23 passes just west of the city. • Nafplion, Greece
•
BUS US 12 is a loop route through downtown
See also
Ypsilanti. • People from Ypsilanti, Michigan
Michigan State Trunklines
• M-17 connects Ypsilanti with nearby Ann Arbor. References
Airports • Beakes, Samuel Willard (1906). Past and present of
• Willow Run Airport, located near Ypsilanti, serves a Washtenaw County, Michigan. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke
variety of freight and general aviation air traffic. Publishing Co. (1906)
Major international freight carriers Kalitta Air and • History of Washtenaw County, Michigan. Chicago: Chas.
National Airlines are based there, however there are C. Chapman & Co. (1881).
no scheduled commercial flights. Willow Run was
once one of the Detroit area’s major commercial
airports, hosting international flights to Europe, but Notes
all commercial traffic had switched to nearby Detroit [1] ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census
Metro Airport by 1967. Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov. Retrieved
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• Amtrak’s twice daily Wolverine service from Chicago [2] "US Board on Geographic Names". United States
to Pontiac passes through Ypsilanti, but does not Geological Survey. 2007-10-25.
stop. Amtrak’s last passenger train stopped in http://geonames.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
Ypsilanti in 1984. Amtrak and area leaders have said [3] US dict: ĭp′·sĭ·lăn′·tē
they are considering reinstating a stop at Ypsilanti, [4] yĭp′·sĭ·lăn′·tē
however.[15] [5] "Governor Granholm Announces Michigan Main
Non-motorized Transportation Street and Blueprints for Michigan’s Downtowns
• The Border-to-Border_Trail winds through Ypsilanti, Winners". http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/
linking the city to Ann Arbor and (eventually) stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/
Dexter. 07-23-2007/0004630539&EDATE.
[6] "Most Phallic Building Winner", [[Cabinet
Nicknames (magazine)|]], http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/
events/phallic/winner.php, retrieved 2011-021-24,
Ypsilanti is often shortened to "Ypsi," particularly in spo- "Called "the brick dick" by locals, this building is
ken conversation and local/regional usage. clearly the world’s most phallic."
Because a large number of residents or their ances- [7] Ann Arbor Votes $5 Fine For the Use of Marijuana,
tors migrated from Appalachia, certain neighborhoods New York Times: Apr 3, 1974
(particularly on the far east side of the city and into Yp- [8] "Historical Population and Employment by Minor
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under increased scrutiny due to its historically derogato- [9] "U.S. Census Bureau Population Finder". U.S.
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ner being held in Ann Arbor to honor Harriette Arnow servlet/
was described as an "Ypsitucky Supper" in some of the SAFFPopulation?_event=ChangeGeoContext&geo_id=16000US2689
event organizer’s media releases.[16][17] In 2009, planning Retrieved 2010-11-18.
began for the "Ypsitucky Jamboree," a new music festival [10] "Eastern Michigan University Website - Fast Facts".
celebrating bluegrass music to be held in Ypsilanti in http://www.emich.edu/aboutemu/fastfacts/.
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area residents and some members of the City Council, about.cfm#contact.
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features/Hipsilanti0052.aspx. arbor/index.ssf/2009/05/
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new-local-art-shows-launched-in-the-shadow-art- group will drop "Ypsitucky" from name of music
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music festival draws criticism over event’s name". • downtownypsi.org
Ann Arbor News. http://www.mlive.com/news/ann- • Virtual Tour of Ypsilanti
arbor/index.ssf/2009/03/ • Ypsilanti at Arbor Wiki
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