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The Calumet Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District that encompasses most of the village of Calumet, Michigan. The district was designated in 1989 for the community's importance in the history of the region's copper mining industry. [2] [3]
The historic Woolworth's Building located at 215 5th Street, (now the Keweenaw Storytelling Center) is one of the contributing structures within the Historic District. The structure was built in 1948. ( photo taken in 2019) As the fortunes of the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company went, so went the fortunes of Calumet.
The Calumet Visitor Center, a museum of the region's mining history operated by the Keweenaw National Historical Park, located in an old Oddfellows lodge. [31] The Keweenaw Storytelling Center, located in a historic Woolworth's building in the Calumet Historic District, [32] is the recording location of The Red Jacket Jamboree variety show. [33]
The Calumet and Hecla Industrial District is a historic district located in Calumet, Michigan and roughly bounded by Hecla & Torch Lake Railroad tracks, Calumet Avenue, Mine and Depot Streets. The district contains structures associated with the copper mines worked by the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company , located along a line above the copper ...
The Calumet Downtown Historic District consists of sixty-two structures along Fifth and Sixth Streets, comprising the main commercial section of Calumet. The Historic District is completely contained in the Calumet Historic District (a National Historic Landmark District). 5: Calumet Fire Station: Calumet Fire Station: November 5, 1974 : 6th St.
The Calumet Unit of the Keweenaw National Historical Park includes many sites in and around the villages of Calumet and Laurium, which are not ghost towns but operating human communities that have survived the shutdown of their parent employer, the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, in 1968. By digging shafts into the rock, the men and owners of ...
Calumet Theatre, c. 1911. The village of Calumet was a prosperous community at the close of the nineteenth century, primarily due to the rich vein of copper mined by the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, located just south and east of the village. In 1898, the community decided that an opera house was required to serve the people of Calumet. [3]
The Calumet Fire Station is a firehouse located on 6th Street in Calumet, Michigan.It is also known as the Red Jacket Fire Station.The building was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, [1] and is part of the Calumet Historic District and the Keweenaw National Historical Park.