11/24/2009      45°F | Fog
The University of Michigan
Arb Parking Tip There are often FREE street parking spaces available on Oswego St. near the Arb's Geddes Street entrance. Click here for a map.
what's in bloom
The Gateway Garden of New World Plants and the Alexandra Hicks Herb Knot Garden at Matthaei offer sensory delights with their profusion of colors and scents.
Check out the bloom calendar.
Looking for a central location to hold a group meeting? How about catching up on some of your reading at a riverside bench? We have some of the University's best study spots.

Barn at the historic homestead site at Mattahei Botanical Gardens. This barn was built in the mid to late 19th centruy.

The farmstead contains the original settlement-period (1830s) farm house and two historic barns from the mid to late 19th century. At present these architecturally significant and signature buildings are closed to the public, but visitors on the Yellow Trail are welcome to examine the barn exterior. All the stone and timber for these buildings came from the site - this is truly vernacular architecture and a treasured part of our cultural heritage. Not surprisingly, both bats and snakes are sometimes seen near here.
 
The farm house is occupied - please keep to the Yellow Trail and respect the residents' privacy.

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