{"id":520,"date":"1894-10-31T19:11:57","date_gmt":"1894-11-01T01:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ss.sites.mtu.edu\/cca\/?p=520"},"modified":"2017-08-21T14:35:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T18:35:21","slug":"j-vivian-jr-co-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ss.sites.mtu.edu\/cca\/j-vivian-jr-co-building\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Vivian, Jr. & Co. Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dany Peavey, Stevan Sliger, John Krystof, and Travis Dvorak.<\/p>\n

Architect: Charlton & Gilbert<\/a>
\nLocation: 342 Hecla St., Laurium
\nBuilt: 1894
\nMasonry: Paul Rohem
\nCarpentry: Edward Ulseth<\/p>\n

\"vivianbldgearly\" — Vivian Building. From Our Boys in the Spanish-American War: A Souvenir, Illustrated (privately printed, 1900).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Johnson Vivian, a Cornish mining captain with diverse commercial interests, brought his son,\u00a0 Johnson Vivian, Jr.<\/a>, into the mercantile business when he established a store in Osceola in 1886. In 1894 they established a branch in Laurium. The store was immediately successful and spurred other commercial development on Hecla Street. By 1895 J. Vivian, Jr., & Co. offered a wide range of dry goods and had more than fifty employees.^{1<\/sup>\u00a0By 1903 the store was reportedly the largest in the Copper Country.^{2<\/sup>\u00a0The store closed in 1936.<\/p>\n}}
The original building, as designed by Charlton & Gilbert, was two stories tall, three bays wide, measuring 58\u2019 x 90\u2019. In 1898 Johnson contracted with Charlton, Gilbert & Demar to design an additional third story. In 1906 the\u00a0 Maass Brothers<\/a>\u00a0designed another addition, the northern bay, so the building currently measures 90\u2019 across the front. A one-story rear addition in 1974 further increased the space.^{3<\/sup><\/p>\n}
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Vivian Building. Photograph by A. K. Hoagland, 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The Italian Renaissance Revival building now has four two-story round-arched windows and a modillioned cornice with attic windows, alternating with marble medallions, in the frieze. The building is brick, with some sandstone trim. At the first level, large plate-glass display windows are divided by piers of alternating courses of brick and rough-faced sandstone. The side elevations have Palladian windows at the third floor.<\/p>\n
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Vivian Building. From Our Boys in the Spanish-American War: A Souvenir, Illustrated (privately printed, 1900).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Johnson Vivian, a Cornish mining captain with diverse commercial interests, brought his son,\u00a0 Johnson Vivian, Jr.<\/a>, into the mercantile business when he established a store in Osceola in 1886. In 1894 they established a branch in Laurium. The store was immediately successful and spurred other commercial development on Hecla Street. By 1895 J. Vivian, Jr., & Co. offered a wide range of dry goods and had more than fifty employees.^{1<\/sup>\u00a0By 1903 the store was reportedly the largest in the Copper Country.^{2<\/sup>\u00a0The store closed in 1936.<\/p>\n}}
The original building, as designed by Charlton & Gilbert, was two stories tall, three bays wide, measuring 58\u2019 x 90\u2019. In 1898 Johnson contracted with Charlton, Gilbert & Demar to design an additional third story. In 1906 the\u00a0 Maass Brothers<\/a>\u00a0designed another addition, the northern bay, so the building currently measures 90\u2019 across the front. A one-story rear addition in 1974 further increased the space.^{3<\/sup><\/p>\n}
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Vivian Building. Photograph by A. K. Hoagland, 2007.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The Italian Renaissance Revival building now has four two-story round-arched windows and a modillioned cornice with attic windows, alternating with marble medallions, in the frieze. The building is brick, with some sandstone trim. At the first level, large plate-glass display windows are divided by piers of alternating courses of brick and rough-faced sandstone. The side elevations have Palladian windows at the third floor.<\/p>\n
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