Downtown Houghton Construction

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Title: Downtown Houghton Construction
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Human Settlements - Cities and Towns, Buildings - Commercial Buildings, Manners and Customs - Clothing and Dress
Condition: Good
Description: [An oversize photo of a building under construction in Houghton. A group of men and workers are gathered in the street and a streetcar is just visible on the left-hand side of the photo. Although the original image underwnt some primitive colorization, the image was scanned in black and white.]
Source of Description: Back of the photograph [cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Unknown
Date of Photo: undated
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 43.2 cm x 35.4 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: No Neg 10-18-2005-002
Collection Name:
Terms of Use: Rights to reproduce and distribute this image may be restricted. Contact the Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections for further information.
User Comments:
• According to architectural historian Kim Hoagland, this was the Leopold Building, built for Nathan Leopold, designed by Henry L. Ottenheimer, built in 1903 by the local superintendent for Paul Mueller, Herman Gundlach. Drawings of this building are part of the Gundlach Drawings Collection and are in the MTU Archives map drawer 85E.
11/7/2007 8:13:37 AM by Erik Nordberg, MTU Archivist