Eugene V. Debs Cooperative House

Lester Cooperative offered interracial and interfaith women's housing until 1943, when it too was relocated and the building at 909 E. University was sold.

[5] During a period of expansive growth beginning in the early 1960s, the Inter-Cooperative Council looked into re-acquiring the building from its owners, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard F. Field.

It originally operated as an all-boys' cooperative house, with two apartment rooms available for married students.

Screenwriter and director Lawrence Kasdan lived at Debs Cooperative in the late 1960s, and his experiences at the co-op served as a basis for the 1983 film The Big Chill.

Many of the characters were based on his housemates, and the ways in which they cook communal meals and share their house echo the culture of Ann Arbor cooperatives.