Biographical Dictionary of Copper Country Architects
by Dany Peavey, Stevan Sliger, John Krystof, and Travis Dvorak. Architect: Charlton & Gilbert Alternative Name: Citizens National Bank Building Location: 320 Shelden Ave., Houghton Built: 1902 Contractor: Herman Gundlach Charles Archibald Pearce, briefly associated with Charlton & Gilbert, was also linked to the design of this building. The three-story Classical Revival building was clad… Read more Hall Building
by David Bandlow Architect: Carl E. Nystrom Location: 400 Block of Pine Street (Highway 203), Calumet Built: 1901 Contractor: Bajari & Ulseth Also known as the Henry Blum building, this attractive three-story building was constructed primarily of brick and stone by contractors Bajari & Ulseth on the north end of Calumet. A contractor named Donahue… Read more Blum Building
by David Bandlow Architect: Carl E. Nystrom Location: 3rd and Hecla Streets, Laurium Built: ca. 1901 In an advertisement in the Hancock Evening Journal of December 29, 1901, Nystrom proudly claimed this building, along with the Nelson Schroeder Block, as “examples of our work.” The three-story brick building is rounded at the corner with a modillioned cornice.… Read more State Savings Bank
by Kiel Vanderhovel and Derek Dykens Architect: Cowles & Eastman Location: Corner of Second and Hecla Street, Laurium Built: 1900 As announced in the newspaper, Peter Contralto planned to spend $10,000 on a two-story commercial building. The building would be 50 feet in width and 60 feet in depth. The possible uses for the Contralto… Read more Peter Contralto Block
by Kiel Vanderhovel and Derek Dykens Architect: Cowles & Eastman Location: East side 300 block of 5th Street, Calumet Built: 1900 Carpentry: Charles A. Anderson; Masonry: P. J. Donohue; Heating and Plumbing: Carlton Hardware Co. Cowles & Eastman designed a $15,000 renovation of the existing building on this site, adding a story and a handsome… Read more Quello Block
by Kiel Vanderhovel and Derek Dykens Architect: Charles K. Shand Location: 800-806 Oak Street, Calumet Built: 19001 Masonry contractor: Paul P. Roehm Destroyed by fire: 1950 Although this business block was initially designed for four separate stores on the first floor, the entire floor was originally occupied by the Lieblein wholesale firm, based in Hancock.… Read more Bollman Block
by Jeremy Rickli Architect: Henry Leopold Ottenheimer Location: Northwest corner of Shelden Avenue and Isle Royale Street, Houghton Built: 1899-1900 Contractor: Paul Mueller, Chicago; local superintendent, Herman Gundlach Located directly north of the Douglass House, the Shelden-Dee block was commissioned by James R. Dee and Mary Shelden in the late 1890s. The building provided elegant… Read more Shelden-Dee Block
by Jeremy Rickli Architect: Henry Leopold Ottenheimer Location: Southwest corner of Isle Royale Street and Shelden Avenue, Houghton Built: 1899-1900 Contractor: Paul Mueller, Chicago; local superintendent, Herman Gundlach The original Douglass House was built in 1860 out of wood and set back from Shelden Avenue, on Montezuma, with a terraced garden stretching to Shelden. Ottenheimer… Read more Douglass House
by David Bandlow Architect: Carl E. Nystrom Location: 332 5th Street, Calumet Built: 1900 Demolished The three-story brick building, 29’ x 112’, was built in the fall of 1900. Mary Corgan, who also owned property in Copper Harbor, was the owner of this speculatively built commercial block located next to the old firehouse. The building… Read more Corgan Block
by Morgan Davis. Architect: Charles W. Maass Location: 216-220 6th Street, corner of Oak, Calumet Addition: 1899-1900 John and Joseph Vertin established this department store, which grew to be biggest in the Copper Country. The ‘big store’ of the Copper Country housed everything a miner or millionaire family could need. Groceries, wallpaper, millinery, ready-to-wear, furniture,… Read more Vertin’s Department Store