engineering

The Arbaugh

The Arbaugh is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand The Arbaugh rather than just read about it. In short: The Arbaugh is a mixed-use building containing 48 loft-style apartments, which was originally built as a department store. The building is located at 401 South Washington in Lansing, Michigan.

Key takeaways

The Arbaugh belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect The Arbaugh to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of The Arbaugh from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Arbaugh is a mixed-use building containing 48 loft-style apartments, which was originally built as a department store. The building is located at 401 South Washington in Lansing, Michigan. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

History Arbaugh's Department Store was founded in 1891 by J. M. Cameron, who soon brought his nephew, Basil C. Cameron, as an assistant. Basil's college roommate, Frank N. Arbaugh, moved to Lansing in 1896 to become a clerk at the store. The next year, J. M. Cameron sold his share of the business to Arbaugh, and the firm became Cameron & Arbaugh. The store flourished, and in 1902 Cameron & Arbaugh purchased the lot on which this building stands. In 1904, they started plans to construct a new building, moving the house that was previously on the property. The building was likely designed by local architect Edwyn A. Bowd. Construction started in early 1905, and the new store opened in October of that year.

In 1909, Frank Arbaugh bought Basil Cameron's share of the store, and the business became the F. N. Arbaugh Company (or simply Arbaugh's). In 1915, a matching addition was constructed on the building, doubling its size. The store survived through the Great Depression, and in 1953 Arbaugh sold the company to Sperry & Hutchinson of New York, who also owned Wurzburg Department Stores in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Arbaugh resigned later that year, and died in 1955. The store operated under the Arbaugh's Department Store name until 1969, when it changed to the Wurzburg's name. The store was closed in 1972. The Arbaugh family had retained ownership of the building after selling the store, and in 1974 sold the building to Lansing automobile dealer Karl Story, who remodeled it into offices. In 2002, the building became vacant, and in 2004 it was rehabilitated for use as apartments and commercial office space.

Description The Arbaugh is a five-story red brick building with sandstone trim standing on a corner lot. The two main facades are identical, and are each divided into six bays by brick piers. Each bay contains large storefront windows on the ground floor, and three side-by-side double-hung windows in the upper floors, with the tops of the fifth-floor windows forming a segmental arch. A classical cornice tops the building.

References

External links The Arbaugh: Building website

Illustrations

Arbaugh's Department Store Logo

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with The Arbaugh

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what The Arbaugh claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to The Arbaugh before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about The Arbaugh ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of The Arbaugh

In research: The Arbaugh appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses The Arbaugh in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: The Arbaugh is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1905 establishments in Michigan, Buildings and structures completed in 1905, Early Commercial architecture in the United States, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for The Arbaugh outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study The Arbaugh in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what The Arbaugh means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain The Arbaugh out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is The Arbaugh in simple terms?

The Arbaugh is a mixed-use building containing 48 loft-style apartments, which was originally built as a department store. The building is located at 401 South Washington in Lansing, Michigan.

Why does The Arbaugh matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study The Arbaugh?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on The Arbaugh.