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The Shelden Avenue Historic District is a commercial historic district located along Shelden, Lake, & Montezuma Avenues in Houghton, Michigan.The district contains 43 contributing buildings (including the Douglass House and the Shelden-Dee Block, both separately listed) [2] in an area of 22 acres. [1]
Houghton: September 24, 1992: Grace Methodist Church: 201 Isle Royale St Houghton: July 26, 2006: Hancock Town Hall and Fire Hall† 399 Quincy Street Hancock: April 15, 1977: Hoar Family Mausoleum: Forest Hill Cemetery near Michigan Tech campus Portage Township: June 15, 1995: Houghton County Courthouse† 401 East Houghton Street Houghton ...
In 1899, a group of Houghton-area investors, headed by John C. Mann, incorporated the Douglass House Company and purchased the hotel. [3] By that time, the original frame structure was showing its age, [3] so the Company settled on the idea of constructing an addition that would be appropriate for Houghton's new-found prominence. [2] [4]
The Michigan State Historic Sites listed by the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office in Houghton County, northern Michigan. Pages in category "Michigan State Historic Sites in Houghton County" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
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Ransom B. Shelden, Jr. was born on June 10, 1852, the same year his father arrived in Houghton. He was the first child born of a settler in Houghton County. In 1893, Ransom B. Shelden, Jr. purchased several lots on College Avenue from his father's copper company. By 1896, he had built this Queen Anne house for his family. However, the Sheldens ...
In Houghton, he met and married Esther Byttalla, a native of Republic. The Consuls soon moved to Chicago, where John Consul worked to start up a new restaurant for a prominent hotel chain. As the chain started hotels in various locations, the Consuls moved around the country, saving money with the intention of starting their own restaurant.
The "heart of Houghton's commercial district" is characterized by sandstone [11] (frequently mined from Jacobsville or Portage Entry) buildings with the frequent "classical detail"; [54] it is centered on Shelden Avenue, the downtown lying in Central Houghton between Montezuma Avenue and Lake Street / Brew Alley / Lakeshore Drive, which are ...