{"id":1152,"date":"1887-12-07T14:12:21","date_gmt":"1887-12-07T19:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ss.sites.mtu.edu\/cca\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2016-12-09T21:31:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T02:31:28","slug":"calumet-hecla-general-office-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ss.sites.mtu.edu\/cca\/calumet-hecla-general-office-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Calumet & Hecla General Office Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Adam Gaugh.<\/p>\n

Architect: Shaw & Hunnewell<\/a>
\nLocation: 25970 Red Jacket Road, Calumet
\nBuilt: 1887
\nAddition on north: 1900
\nAddition on east: 1909, Charlton & Kuenzli<\/a><\/p>\n

\"chgeneral\" — C&H General Office Building. Photograph by A. Gaugh, 2006.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Fronting Red Jacket Road at the intersection of Calumet Ave., the two-and-one-half story C&H General Office Building was built by the Calumet & Hecla Mining Company, the largest U.S. producer of copper during the 1870s. Company operations were directed from this building, which also housed engineers, draftsmen, and accountants for the C&H Mining Company. Miners would wait inside the attached shed to collect their wages.<\/p>\n
Shaw and Hunnewell\u2019s designs for the building have been described as \u201cbroadly Italianate,\u201d based on its Renaissance-inspired details such as quoins and formal elements (a flat, symmetrical fa\u00e7ade, raised basement, and rectangular mass).^{1<\/sup>\u00a0The reddish-brown, black, and gray polygonal-shaped rubble is trimmed with bricks spanning the segmental-arched windows and doorways.^{2<\/sup><\/p>\n}}
Since 1992, the Keweenaw National Historical Park, established to commemorate the heritage of copper mining in Michigan\u2019s Keweenaw Peninsula, has resided in the building.<\/p>\n
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C&H General Office Building, before 1900. MTU Archives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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