Title: Fire Place
Photographer: J.T. Reeder
Subject Headings: Historic Sites, Manners and Customs - Clothing and Dress,
Condition: Good
Description: Copper Harbor, Fort Wilkins (fire place) [A women stokes a fire burning in the old Fort Wilkins fire place]
Source of Description: Reeder Negative Database [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Harry Reeder
Date of Photo: undated
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 21.5 cm x 16.5 cm
Polarity: Negative
Image No: MS053-003-010
Collection Name: MS042 Reeder Photograph Collection
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MTU Class of:2000, 2008
This is an early example of adaptive reuse" of a former site. The woman is cooking at a fireplace that was originally one half of the heating/cooking feature of the two-family Married Enlisted Men's Quarters at Ft. Wilkins. This would be the fireplace/chimney arrangement that was once center in Cabin # 4. One can see the 'ceiling' and 'roof line' in the white paint on the chimney: straight for the ceiling, and an inverted "V" for the roof. There would be two fireplaces facing opposite directions so that one chimney would suffice for two living units under one roof. The single-log wall construction of these cabins was not as weather-resistant as the buildings of the Fort's interior that had clapboard siding and finished interior walls. All four Married Enlisted Men's Cabins have been reconstructed around the original chimney/fireplace features."
9/22/2011 11:31:13 AM by Anonymous