Obj. ID: 53433
Memorials Plaque on Raoul Wallenberg's dwelling in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, 1990s
Name of Monument
Plaque on Raoul Wallenberg's dwelling in Ann Arbor, MI
What/Who is commemorated
Raoul Wallenberg
Description
A small plaque bearing the symbol of Ann Arbor and a short English text is attached to the house where Raoul Wallenberg lived as a student at the University of Michigan in 1931–1932. The plaque is affixed on the right of the entrance door and is barely readable from the street.
Inscriptions
Ann Arbor Historic Building
Raoul Wallenberg
Residence
1931–2
(Vernon Willey House, 1901)
Ann Arbor Historic District Commission
Commissioned by
The Historic District Commission of the City of Ann Arbor, Michigan
6 image(s)
sub-set tree:
| 309 East Madison St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104
The house was built in 1901, for Vernon J. Willey. instructor in electrotherapeutics, who became Director of the Roentgen Laboratory in 1906.
Raoul Wallenberg lived in this house in 1931-1932.
Schult, Tanja, A Hero’s Many Faces: Raoul Wallenberg in Contemporary Monuments. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), p. 189.