\nLocation:\u00a0211 (formerly 110) A St., East Hancock
\nBuilt: 1900
\nDemolished: 1930s<\/p>\n
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<\/a>James R. Cooper, head of the Detroit & Lake Superior Smelter Company, also designed Quincy\u2019s new smelter in 1898 and was superintendent from 1898-1906. Apparently, housing was part of that arrangement, because in 1900 Quincy gave him $7,000 to underwrite the cost of his new house. The house belonged to Quincy, though; Cooper leased it back from the company for $350 a year.1<\/sup><\/p>\n Charlton, Gilbert & Demar designed a house that was large in size but modest in style.\u00a0 The two-and-a-half-story, wood-frame house had narrow clapboard siding, a Portage Entry sandstone foundation, and a porch on two sides.\u00a0 The porch had Ionic columns and turned balusters.\u00a0 The front of the house had a two-story bay window; the door was on the side of the house.\u00a0 Paired Corinthian columns decorated one of the three gable dormers on the side-gable roof. \u00a0 The first floor included\u00a0 a parlor, sitting room, dining room, library, coat room, and various service spaces, while the second floor had six bedrooms, a linen closet, and a bath room.\u00a0 Two bedrooms and a sitting room, along with an unfinished store room, occupied the attic.\u00a0 The specifications noted that \u201cAll material used to be the best of their respective kinds, and the work to be done in the very best style of workmanship, and to be done under the direct supervision of the Architects.\u201d2<\/sup><\/p>\n James Cooper died in 1906. In 1917 the building became a Finnish hospital. In 1931 it accommodated a restaurant known as the Italian Gardens, which was destroyed by fire. A newer house now sits on the site.3<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n
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