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The Quincy Mine machine shop (seen in 2018 with its repaired roof) which was bought in 2005 for the museum Portrait of Douglass Houghton in the museum Silver-copper mineral specimen from Wolverine Mine, Houghton County, Michigan, formerly in the Seaman Museum collections.
Ransom B. Shelden, Jr. was born on June 10, 1852, the same year his father arrived in Houghton. He was the first child born of a settler in Houghton County. In 1893, Ransom B. Shelden, Jr. purchased several lots on College Avenue from his father's copper company. By 1896, he had built this Queen Anne house for his family. However, the Sheldens ...
Houghton: January 19, 1957: Lake Linden Village Hall and Fire Station† 401 Calumet Street Lake Linden: December 15, 1994: Edward Lieblein House† 525 Quincy Street Hancock: June 15, 1979: John J. Michels House† 1121 East Houghton Avenue Houghton: May 18, 1989: Michigan College of Mining and Technology Informational Designation US-41 ...
The blacksmith shop, built in 1883, is a hipped-roof structure built of rock, measuring 96 feet (29 m) by 54 feet [4] and roofed with corrugated metal. [7] It was originally used as a locomotive house [4] for the narrow gauge Calumet & Hecla railroad. [7] It was later used as a smith shop; an addition was constructed in 1904. [7]
The Shelden Avenue Historic District contains the western Upper Peninsula's largest concentration of architecturally significant commercial buildings. [3] The district includes primarily commercial structures, but warehouses, lodge halls, municipal buildings, a movie theater, and a railroad passenger depot are also included within the district's boundaries.
This site consists of three structures: theUpton Road Bridge, one of only three remaining Parker truss bridges in Michigan, the Elsie Mill Pond Dam, a rock and earth-filled dam with a concrete cap, and Kellogg Bros. & Johnson Mill Site, the foundation and associated remains of the 1865 Kellogg Bros. & Johnson grist mill. 4
Houghton was the birthplace of professional ice hockey in the United States when the Portage Lakers were formed in 1903. Houghton is the home of the Portage Lake Pioneers Senior Hockey Team. The team's home ice is Dee Stadium, named after James R. Dee. Dee Stadium was originally called the Amphidrome, before it was severely damaged in a 1927 fire.
First Congregational Church, home of the Houghton County Historical Museum. The Houghton County Historical Museum is located at 5500 M-26 in Lake Linden, Michigan. [4] The museum houses over 100 years of photographs and artifacts [4] with three floors of exhibits of local Copper Country mining, logging and cultural history. [23]