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by Adam Gaugh.
Architect: Shaw & Hunnewell
Location: 25970 Red Jacket Road, Calumet
Built: 1887
Addition on north: 1900
Addition on east: 1909, Charlton & Kuenzli
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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.
Shaw and Hunnewell’s designs for the building have been described as “broadly Italianate,” based on its Renaissance-inspired details such as quoins and formal elements (a flat, symmetrical façade, raised basement, and rectangular mass).1 The reddish-brown, black, and gray polygonal-shaped rubble is trimmed with bricks spanning the segmental-arched windows and doorways.2
Since 1992, the Keweenaw National Historical Park, established to commemorate the heritage of copper mining in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, has resided in the building.
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Buildings by Shaw & Hunnewell in the Copper Country
Notes
- Bjorkman, “Draft Historic Structure Report.”
- “Calumet and Hecla Industrial District,” National Register of Historic Places Nomination (U. S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, 1987).