Lakeview Railroad Station

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Title: Lakeview Railroad Station
Photographer: John T. Reeder
Subject Headings: Buildings, Transportation - Railroads - Street - Railroads, Persons
Condition: Good
Description: Lakeview Railroad Station Crew. [Group of working men sit and stand in front of an entry way to the lake view railway station.]
Source of Description: [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor:
Date of Photo: undated
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 21.5 cm x 16.3 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: MS042-999-T-312
Collection Name: MS042; John T Reeder Photograph Collection
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User Comments:
• In his book, The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway," John Gaertner writes, 'Hancock was the last major point on the Mineral Range to receive a new depot. Contractor Archie Servile began work on the single-story 30'x76' structure, up on the bluff at Lakeview Station, on June 15, 1916. The "dark rose colored brick" building with cement trim had both ladies' and men's waiting rooms and "sanitary drinking fountains and lavatories." Hancock Agent Charles S. Jones and his clerks transferred over to the new depot on November 29, 1916.' I believe this image depicts the structure Gaertner describes, Hancock's second "Lakeview (or Lake View) Station" near what is now Depot Street."
10/2/2014 9:01:25 PM by John Haeussler