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Old Main - Historic photos

Old Main

The main hallway of Old Main in its Central High School days. Note the clock, seen in an earlier photo in this gallery.

The main hallway of Old Main in its Central High School days. Note the clock, seen in an earlier photo in this gallery.

Photo from the Burton Historical Collection

The main hallway of Old Main in its Central High School days. Note the clock, seen in an earlier photo in this gallery.
Old Main has been a center of Wayne State live for a century.
Old Main in 1971
Old Main in the 1970s
Old Main in the 1960s
Old Main in the 1960s
A stairway of Old Main
The Central High School library
A laboratory at Old Main during its days as Central High School
A decorative column in a hallway of Old Main during its Central High School days
A clock in the main hallway of Old Main during its Central High School days.
A classroom in Old Main's days as Central High School
A classroom in Old Main's days as Central High School
A classroom in Old Main's days as Central High School
A classroom in Old Main's days as Central High School
Old Main before its addition, about 1900
Old Main in 1897
The men's room of Old Main
Old Main shortly after it opened. Photo taken about 1900.
Old Main in the 1930s.
Old Main in its days as Central High School and before it was expanded
Graduates get ready for the big ceremony outside Old Main in the mid-1930s
Under the roof of Old Main
Old Main goes up in 1895.
Old Main goes up in 1895.
Old Main goes up in 1895.
Old Main in its days as Central High School, seen here about 1915
Old Main in its days as Central High School.
A view of Old Main's West Hancock Street entrance - Photo from 1979