Buildings - Houses - Houghton

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Title: Buildings - Houses - Houghton
Photographer: Unknown
Subject Headings: Buildings - Dwellings - Housing, Single Family, Seasons - Winter, Woody Plants - Trees
Condition: Good
Description: House on College Avenue [Photo of a large home with three chimneys and bay windows.]
Source of Description: Back of Photo [Cataloger]
Institution: Michigan Technological University Archives and Copper Country Historical Collections
Donor: Communication Services
Date of Photo: undated
Medium: still image
Color: black and white
Size: 20.1 cm x 25.1 cm
Polarity: Positive
Image No: No Neg 2008-02-05-02
Collection Name: Copper Country Photograph Vertical File
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:
• This is the Denton House, built by Frederick Denton, general manager of the Copper Range Consolidated Company. The Denton house was on the west end of the campus, where a parking lot sits between the Social Science building and the President’s house. The college presumably purchased it or was given it by the Denton estate for use as faculty offices. The building as of 1960 housed the Engineering Administration Department. Probably that department did not need all the building's rooms because HU faculty in the 1960s recall being housed there as well.
2020-09-14 - 21:02:00 by JackJobst