Paul G. Tessmer built the U. of M. Boat House in 1898 on Argo Pond. He had 160 canoes and 40 rowboats for rent as of 1906.
His family home on Sunset is now the Elks Pratt Lodge.
More information
- "New" U of M Boat Livery on Argo Pond, Wystan Stevens, on the Ann Arbor District Library Local History blog.
- Beakes bio of Tessmer
- Liber 158 of Deeds, page 410.
- Plan for Reinventing Dixboro, Sandra Arhaus, Urban Planning 507
The Superior and Ann Arbor Fractional District No. 2 Schoolhouse (Dixboro School) was designed and built by Paul Tessmer, a mason contractor from Ann Arbor, in 1888 to replace a frame schoolhouse built in 1826 when Dixboro was platted.
- Finnegan v. Michigan Central Railroad Co, 1898, in The American and English Railroad Cases 1901.
