{"id":1081,"date":"1903-12-06T22:51:02","date_gmt":"1903-12-07T04:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ss.sites.mtu.edu\/cca\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2017-08-15T23:14:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T03:14:42","slug":"leopold-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ss.sites.mtu.edu\/cca\/leopold-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopold Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Jeremy Rickli<\/p>\n

Architect: Henry Leopold Ottenheimer<\/a>
\nLocation: Shelden Avenue &\u00a0Huron Street, Houghton
\nBuilt: 1903
\nContractor: Paul Mueller, Chicago; local superintendent, Herman Gundlach<\/p>\n

\"leopoldbuildinglate2\" — Leopold Building. Photograph by F. L. Quivik, 2011.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The Leopold Building was developed for Nathan Leopold, one of the founders of the South Range State Bank. The newspaper described the building: \u201cThe building ranks with the finest business blocks in Houghton or the copper country.\u201d It was occupied by a department store on the Shelden Street side and a bar on the Huron Street side, with offices on the second floor.^{1<\/sup><\/p>\n}
The building, according to the plans, was rectangular in shape, two stories tall and five bays wide.^{2<\/sup>\u00a0The building is red brick with white-glazed brick trim. Pilasters separate the windows on the second floor. On the front, the end bays are differentiated, with a cornice-like white trim, and the three center bays have white panels over the windows. On the Huron Street side, white stripes in the brick decorate the first-floor wall.<\/p>\n}
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Leopold Building under construction. MTU Archives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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