{"id":556,"date":"1900-10-31T22:10:07","date_gmt":"1900-11-01T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ss.sites.mtu.edu\/cca\/?p=556"},"modified":"2017-08-21T14:43:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T18:43:13","slug":"wright-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ss.sites.mtu.edu\/cca\/wright-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright Block"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Architect: Charlton, Gilbert, & Demar<\/a>
\nLocation: 100-102 Quincy Street, Hancock
\nBuilt: 1900
\nContractor: Prendergast & Clarkson
\nAddition: 1907, H. T. Liebert, Architect: Erik Anderson, contractor<\/p>\n

\"wrightblocklate\" — Wright Block. Photograph by A. K. Hoagland, 2006.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Completed in 1900, this building was divided into two, with the east side containing Superior Savings bank and the west being the home of Gartner\u2019s department store. The Classical Revival building is clad in buff brick and ornamented with smooth-faced Jacobsville sandstone. The Quincy Street front of the building has been compromised with alterations at the first floor, but the two stories above have two-story pilasters and a handsome modillioned cornice. On the Reservation Street side, a colonnade runs along the first floor, supporting two-story oriels at either end.<\/p>\n
Although Gartner\u2019s apparently hoped to occupy the whole building, the dry-goods firm initially shared it with the Superior Savings Bank. In 1907 Gartner\u2019s added a three-story building to the west, designed by\u00a0 H. T. Liebert<\/a>\u00a0and built by Erik Anderson. This and half of the Wright Block\u2019s facade were covered by a new fa\u00e7ade of blue Vitrolite in 1952.^{1<\/sup><\/p>\n}
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This ad, created before the Wright Block was completed, shows Gartner\u2019s occupying the entire building. From Our Boys in the Spanish-American War: A Souvenir, Illustrated (privately printed, 1900).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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