Gwinn was built between 1907 and 1919 as a model town for iron miners working the nearby mines owned by the Cleveland Cliffs mining company. It's named after the mother of William Mather, the company president, and was designed by Boston landscape designer Warren H. Manning. It's on the National Register of Historic Places. This is a 2014 re-creation of the original clock tower, which had been demolished in 1990.
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Escanaba. On the National Register of Historic Places.
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Now the local history museum. On the National Register of Historic Places.
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The Nelson E Fisher "High Banks" House" in Iron River. On the National Register of Historic Places. ""High Banks" was built in 1912 for Nelson A. Fisher, a leading Iron River businessman and one of the "Big Five." Iron River's Big Five together organized the Iron Savings and Loan Association in 1905, the Iron River Realty Company, the Iron Range Light and Power Company, and platted the Village of Caspian in 1907. Fisher's daughter Aileen Fisher later became a notable children's author, and her childhood memories of High Banks are reflected in her writing."
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This is one of the many historic homes in the Iron River area that I went searching for because they were on the National Register of Historic Places but didn't have a photo in the wikicommons. It turned out to be much more difficult than I anticipated, since many of the addresses were in Stambaugh and Stambaugh doesn't exist anymore, having been incorporated into Iron River in 2000. Presumably to avoid duplicating names, many street names in Stambaugh were changed in the process. I would have been more successful if I'd known that and done a little more research on the changes before I set out! But this one was easy. Here's what the National Register says, "This house is two-story Prairie-style house with a massive segmental-arch front porch which extends to one side to form a porte cochere. The house was first owned by Joseph Harris, owner of the Harris Clothing Store in Iron River, which operated from about 1910 to about 1925."
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