C.C. Little Building

## The Clarence Cook Little Building represents much than a bus destination

Built in 1925 for the medical school by famed Detroit and Ann Arbor architect Albert Kahn who designed many buildings on campus.
Now houses many Natural Sciences departments. (Department of Microbiology box 1951-1979).
The building is situated on the northeast corner of the original parameters of the Central Campus Diag. The building is constructed in a triangular shape on the corner and features Ionic columns and a brick facade.
Named after Clarence Cook Little, University of Michigan president from 1925-1929, in the first year of his term (VanEyck 1965; “Inauguration of Clarence Cook Little…” 1925).
There has been recent controversy over the naming rights to this building as its namesake supported eugenics during his lifetime. (Meer, 2017). This controversy comes in the midst of a climate of ongoing between the public and the University over who has the right to name buildings that affect many people logistically and emotionally. (Meer, 2017; VanEyck 1965).
“C.C. Little” is also the site of a major bus stop all University and many Ann Arbor buses. (Meer, 2017).
As seen below, the C.C. Little Building has ample research and laboratory facilities as well as lecture hall space, classrooms and offices for professors.
While many students may walk by the C.C. Little building everyday and not give it a second thought, this architecturally and historically significant structure has a curious history and is worth exploring as it approaches its one hundredth birthday ([Clarence Cook Little Papers] 1924).

Sources

Department of Microbiology University of Michigan records 1951-1979 , 1959-1970. (Photographs and files). Call number 87146 Bimu C46 2
Inauguration of Clarence Cook Little, SC.D., L.L.D. As President of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Monday, November the Second, Nineteen Hundred Twenty-five. [Ann Arbor, 1925.]
Little, Clarence C, and Henry Moore Bates. [Clarence Cook Little Papers], 1924.
Meer, Jennifer. “University community debates building names’ legacy after new policy” The Michigan Daily January 26, 2017 https://www.michigandaily.com/section/news/university-community-responds-new-policy-will-allow-names-campus-buildings-be-changed
Potter, E.G. 44 North-east section of Ann Arbor, Mich. showing University of Michigan property and buildings (Photographs), 1920.
VanEyck, Daniel K.. President Clarence Cook Little And the University of Michigan. , 1965.

Image credits

“C.C. Little Science Building.” The Greek U-M Campus. University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and the Arts. n.d https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwjQyPPcv8XTAhVq5YMKHVHkA40QjxwIAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.lsa.umich.edu%2Fgreekcampus%2Fcentralcampus%2Fcc-little-building%2F&psig=AFQjCNE7CDUnH_0mauZr9zb6z5vT6WI9iA&ust=1493412092054563
“Michigan Geomicrobial Lab.” University of Michigan, College of Literature, Science and the Arts. http://www.earth.lsa.umich.edu/geomicrobiology/Lab.html