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- In the heart of the University of Michigan campus, this restored historic house is comfortably furnished with contemporary art, theatre and music performance memorabilia.
Costumes, set pieces and props wittily inhabit unexpected corners of this outwardly sedate Italianate Victorian structure.
- There is an extensive arts and science library for browsing.
String and keyboard instruments are available for informal chamber music.
- Your Artful Lodger stay offers you Ann Arbor at its most accessible.
It is a pleasant walk to Hill Auditorium, the Power Center, the Art Museum, the Mendelssohn Theatre, the U-M stadium, Yost Arena, main campus and the medical complex.
- In June and July, Summer Festival and the Ann Arbor Art Fair are just down the street.
Enjoy all your on-campus events without the stress of parking.
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 Daily gourmet breakfast
- Breakfast options include: Vegetarian, Vegan and Heart-healthy
- Cocoa, cider, tea and coffee always available
- Air-Conditioned Bedrooms
- Cable TV
- DVD and VCR in Music Room along with Clavinova, harpsichord, and occasional visiting musical instruments
- Secluded second-floor sundeck, comfortable screened porch, spacious front porch and rustic patio
- Smoke-free environment; outdoor smoking area available
- Open year-round
- Off-street parking
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Large ground-floor bedroom with a king-size bed and French patterned linens, a cherry Shaker armoire, comfortable seating area, an ensuite private tiled bath, air conditioning, cable television with VCR and guest phone
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$109-$129
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Second floor queen-sized bedroom with designer linens, private tiled bath, air conditioning, cable television and guest phone. An adjacent balcony overlooks the spacious grounds.
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$109-$129
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Second floor queen-sized bedroom with designer linens, private tiled bath, air conditioning, cable television and guest phone. An adjacent sundeck overlooks an urban wood.
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$99-$109
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Third and fourth floors, artists' retreat/hideaway with a full-sized draped bed and designer linens, a connecting private tiled bath with clawfoot tub and European-style hand shower, air conditioning, cable television, guest phone and an adjacent cupola aerie for yoga or meditation on balmy days.
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$99-$109
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- Higher rates apply on sports and concert weekends, during Art Fair and at University Commencements.
- Courtesy discount for artists in visual or performance media.
- Reservations may be made with the payment of one night's lodging by check or Visa.
- NOTE: Prices do not include 8% tax.
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We're currently not accepting reservations at this time.
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From time to time, artists submit their own renderings of the Frieze House.
We are proud to showcase the following artists' views of the Artful Lodger:
Drawings by Alexia Zerbinis and Richard Cox, respectively.
- This massive stone house was built in the middle of the nineteenth century for Henry Simmons Frieze, a University of Michigan professor, later to become University president.
- The main structure was completed in 1859.
The cupola, set whimsically astride the original roof, was finished a decade later.
- The materials used in the construction of the house were local products; the beautiful interior woodwork was crafted from walnut trees growing on the property.
- With the major exception of a new gourmet kitchen, designed to use the same classic materials in the contemporary idiom, the structure is essentially the same as it was 140 years ago.
The Henry Simmons Frieze House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Fred and Ede Bookstein are both long-time choral singers, having sung with many major orchestras including the Boston and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestra and the Russian National Orchestra.
- Fred is a morphometrician - a term and a field which he invented - working at describing and quantifying the changes of shapes of (primarily) biological data. He is currently Professor of Morphometrics at the University of Vienna, Austria as well as teaching in the Honors Program of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the resident raconteur of The Artful Lodger and can easily be persuaded to talk interestingly on most topics of interest.
- Ede Bookstein was a classical music and theatre critic for almost twenty years. She is also a professional costume designer, working with opera companies, regional theatre companies and independent film makers. She has designed more than 100 shows - having lost count some time ago. She has also been an interior designer, a caterer, and "Mom" to five children, all of which were good basic training for The Artful Lodger.
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