Biographical Dictionary of Copper Country Architects
by Alison K. Hoagland. Architect: Charles K. Shand Contractor: Anderson Location: 427 7th St., Calumet Built: 1901 Edward F. Cuddihy had this house built for himself and his bride in 1901.1 By 1910, though, he was a widower with two young sons. At that time, he lived in this house with sons John, age 7,… Read more Edward F. Cuddihy House
by A. K. Hoagland. Architect: Charles Archibald Pearce Location: 200 Hubbell St., Houghton Built: 1901 Demolished: after 1928 (1960s?) Although this building no longer stands, it is an interesting example of a house built to accommodate Michigan Tech (then called the Michigan Mining School) students and faculty. Situated directly across from campus, and most likely… Read more Elba Johnson House
by A. K. Hoagland Architect: Donald M. Scott Location: 308 Tamarack St., Laurium Built: 1900 Demolished: 1940s Ernest Bollman commissioned this house in Laurium. Bollman was a significant developer of Laurium, platting three additions to the north end of the village between 1894 and 1899. He was president of the State Savings Bank, served a… Read more Bollman House
by Katie Torrey Architect: Charles Archibald Pearce Location: 413, 409, 405, 401, 331, 327, 325, 317, 313, 309 Wright St., Hancock Built: 1900 Contractors: Parker & Hamill In developing the Quincy Hillside Addition to Hancock, the Quincy Mining Company displaced some residents. To accommodate them, the company built ten houses for sale. Built by contractors… Read more Quincy Mining Company Houses
by Katie Torrey Architect: Charles Archibald Pearce Location: 308 Harris St., East Hancock Built: 1900 Pearce designed this house for Richard and Catherine Light. Richard was a travel agent and commissioner. This house originally had a tower on the west side, which was later replaced by a dormer. The Light family owned this house until… Read more Richard Light House
by Katie Torrey Architect: Charles Archibald Pearce Location: 209 Center St., East Hancock Built: ca. 1900 If Pearce had any role in the design of this house, he borrowed heavily from Frank P. Allen, who published this design in his 1892 book Artistic Dwellings. Blueprints of Allen’s design were found in the house in 1986.1 Pearce… Read more Edwin Henwood House
by Katie Torrey Architect: Charles Archibald Pearce Location: 312 Cooper St., East Hancock Built: ca 1900 Pearce designed this house for his mother, Emma Jane Pearce, and his siblings.1 After his mother died in 1908, his unmarried sisters, Amy and Rhoda Pearce, inherited the house and continued to live there for the rest of their lives.2 Neither… Read more Emma Jane Pearce House
by Jeremy Rickli Architect: Henry Leopold Ottenheimer Location: 918 College Avenue, Houghton Built: 1899-1900 Allen Rees, a prominent lawyer, employed Ottenheimer to design his asymmetrical Classical Revival-style house. The two-and-a-half-story house has two-story Ionic columns and a squat two-story corner tower. The broad hip roof extends to cover the portico. Round-arched dormer windows punctuate the… Read more Allen Rees House
by Dany Peavey, Stevan Sliger, John Krystof, and Travis Dvorak Architect: Charlton, Gilbert, & Demar Location: 308 Pewabic St., Laurium Built: 1900 This grand house was built for Susan Daniell, widow of mine captain John Daniell. Susan Edwards, born in England in 1849, immigrated to the Copper Country as a child. She married John Daniell… Read more Susan Daniell House
by Dany Peavey, Stevan Sliger, John Krystof, and Travis Dvorak. Architect: Charlton, Gilbert, & Demar Location: 211 (formerly 110) A St., East Hancock Built: 1900 Demolished: 1930s James R. Cooper, head of the Detroit & Lake Superior Smelter Company, also designed Quincy’s new smelter in 1898 and was superintendent from 1898-1906. Apparently, housing was part of… Read more James R. and Virginia Cooper House