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703 East Houghton Avenue Houghton: December 8, 1977: St. Paul the Apostle Church: 301 Eighth Avenue Calumet: June 23, 1983: Scott Hotel: 101 East Quincy Hancock: January 17, 1986: Suomi College Building† 601 Quincy Street, Suomi College campus Hancock: February 12, 1959: Suomi Synod Informational Designation 26031 Depot St. Calumet: January ...
Suomi quickly outgrew Old Main, and an additional frame building housing a gym, meeting hall and music center was constructed in 1901. [2] In the 1920s, Suomi's mission shifted and it became primarily a liberal arts college. [2] In 1958, the seminary separated from the rest of the college. [2] In 2000, Suomi changed its name to Finlandia ...
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 ...
The building was constructed in 1899-1900 by the Chicago- and Houghton-based construction firm of Paul P.F. Mueller. [ 2 ] The first businesses to occupy the four ground-level storefronts were a drug store, a shoe store, a dry goods store, and a café / saloon; a barber was located in the basement. [ 3 ]
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The Shelden Avenue Historic District contains the western Upper Peninsula's largest concentration of architecturally significant commercial buildings. [3] The district includes primarily commercial structures, but warehouses, lodge halls, municipal buildings, a movie theater, and a railroad passenger depot are also included within the district's boundaries.
Finlandia University was founded as Suomi College on September 8, 1896, by J. K. Nikander (b. 1855, Hämeenlinna, Finland, d. 1919). [ 7 ] [ 9 ] During the 1880s, large numbers of Finns immigrated to Hancock, Michigan to labor in the copper and lumber industries.
In 1896, the church established Suomi College and Theological Seminary (now called Finlandia University) in Hancock, Michigan. At the time of its closure in 2023, Finlandia was the only private institution of higher learning in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the only remaining university in North America founded by Finnish immigrants. [3]