- Copper Country Architects
- Birkerts, Gunnar
- Brielmaier, Erhard
- Charlton et al.
- Claude & Starck
- Cowles & Eastman
- Demar & Lovejoy
- Dow, Howell, Gilmore & Associates
- Eschweiler, Alexander C.
- Herbst & Kuenzli
- Holabird & Roche
- Liebert, Hans T.
- Lockhart, G. L.
- Maass Brothers
- Macneil, Paul H.
- Nystrom, Carl E.
- Ottenheimer, Henry L.
- Pearce, Charles A.
- Pierce, Byron H.
- Pryor, William
- Saarinen, Eero
- Scott, John, & Co.
- Shand, et al.
- Shaw & Hunnewell
- Sutcliff, John B.
- Sweatt, John B.
- TMP Associates
- Walsh, Robert C.
- Yamasaki, Minoru
- Sources
- Building Index
- Location Index
Northwestern Hotel The Northwestern Hotel, the first high-class hotel in Hancock, had 50 rooms with electric lighting and bathrooms with hot and cold water. The hotel was four stories tall, the tallest building in Hancock. The brick building had sandstone trim and a large pressed metal cornice. The façade was seven bays wide with balconies across the front at the second- and third-floor levels.6
First National Bank Building This building was constructed in 1888 under the supervision of Pierce, who designed a two-story structure which was expanded in 1903 according to designs by Charles Archibald Pearce to provide a third floor. It was located on the main street in Hancock, and many companies held office space inside, including Hancock Sandstone Land Company, the Hancock Consolidated Mining Company, the Northern Michigan Building & Loan Association (later D&N Bank), and Hanchette & Lawton’s law offices.7 The brick building, with decorative terra cotta window lintels and trim, was an extremely busy design. The canted corner, facing the intersection, had an elaborate entrance; at the cornice level, tourelles reached upwards. There were both vertical and horizontal divisions in the two facades, with a particularly ornate cornice. Union Building The Union Building Association commissioned this building to accommodate the Free & Accepted Masons and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, as well as more than twenty other fraternal groups. The Association leased the land from Calumet & Hecla and rented the storefronts to commercial enterprises, such as the Merchant’s and Miner’s Bank, the U.S. Post Office, the Keweenaw Printing Company. Keweenaw National Historical Park currently owns the building.8 The three-story brick building has sandstone trim and a recently restored modillioned cornice. There are two ground-floor storefronts, one with a recessed entrance on the corner. At the second and third levels, the windows are paired, united by a stone segmental arch. Masons’ and Oddfellows’ logos are located in the lintels of the center windows.
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