Negaunee Downtown Historic District
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NPS Form 10-900 OMB Control No. 1024-0018 expiration date 03/31/2022 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service National Register of Historic Places Registration Form This form is for use in nominating or requesting determinations for individual properties and districts. See instructions in National Register Bulletin, How to Complete the National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. If any item does not apply to the property being documented, enter "N/A" for "not applicable." For functions, architectural classification, materials, and areas of significance, enter only categories and subcategories from the instructions. 1. Name of Property Historic name: __Negaunee Downtown Historic District_____________ Other names/site number: ______________________________________ Name of related multiple property listing: ___________________________________________________________ (Enter "N/A" if property is not part of a multiple property listing ____________________________________________________________________________ 2. Location Street & number: _Broadly, Peck Street to Rail Street and Tobin Street to North Teal Lake Avenue_ City or town: _Negaunee___ State: _Michigan___ County: _Marquette__ Not For Publication: Vicinity: ____________________________________________________________________________ 3. State/Federal Agency Certification As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act, as amended, I hereby certify that this nomination ___ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property ___ meets ___ does not meet the National Register Criteria. I recommend that this property be considered significant at the following level(s) of significance: ___national ___statewide _X_ local Applicable National Register Criteria: _X_ A ___B _X_ C ___D Signature of certifying official/Title: Date ______________________________________________ State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government 1 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB Control No. 1024-0018 Negaunee Downtown Historic District Marquette Co., MI Name of Property County and State In my opinion, the property meets does not meet the National Register criteria. Signature of commenting official: Date Title : State or Federal agency/bureau or Tribal Government ______________________________________________________________________________ 4. National Park Service Certification I hereby certify that this property is: entered in the National Register determined eligible for the National Register determined not eligible for the National Register removed from the National Register other (explain:) _____________________ ______________________________________________________________________ Signature of the Keeper Date of Action ____________________________________________________________________________ 5. Classification Ownership of Property (Check as many boxes as apply.) Private: x Public – Local x Public – State Public – Federal x x x Category of Property (Check only one box.) Building(s) x District Sections 1-6 page 2 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB Control No. 1024-0018 Negaunee Downtown Historic District Marquette Co., MI Name of Property County and State Site Structure Object Number of Resources within Property (Do not include previously listed resources in the count) Contributing Noncontributing ____53_______ ____16_______ buildings _____________ _____________ sites _____________ _____________ structures _____2_______ _____________ objects ____55_______ _____16_______ Total Number of contributing resources previously listed in the National Register ___4_____ ____________________________________________________________________________ 6. Function or Use Historic Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) _Commerce/Trade: Specialty Store _Department Store, Financial Institution, _Restaurant__________________ _Social: Meeting Hall__________ _Government: City Hall, Fire Hall, Post Office _Education: School, Library_______________ _Religion: Religious Facility, Church School_ _Domestic: Hotel, Single Dwelling_ Current Functions (Enter categories from instructions.) _Commerce/Trade: Specialty Store, Business _Government: City Hall, Fire Hall, Post Office Sections 1-6 page 3 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service / National Register of Historic Places Registration Form NPS Form 10-900 OMB Control No. 1024-0018 Negaunee Downtown Historic District Marquette Co., MI Name of Property County and State _Education: School, Library _Social: Meeting Hall_ _Religion: Religious Facility _Domestic: Single Dwelling, Multiple Dwelling Sections 1-6 page 4 _____________________________________________________________________________ 7. Description Architectural Classification (Enter categories from instructions.) _Late Victorian _Classical Revival____ _Commercial Style _ _Modern Movement_______ ___________________ ___________________ ___________________ Materials: (enter categories from instructions.) Principal exterior materials of the property: _Stone, Brick, Concrete, Vinyl, Metal, Asphalt__ Narrative Description (Describe the historic and current physical appearance and condition of the property. Describe contributing and noncontributing resources if applicable. Begin with a summary paragraph that briefly describes the general characteristics of the property, such as its location, type, style, method of construction, setting, size, and significant features. Indicate whether the property has historic integrity.) ______________________________________________________________________________ Summary Paragraph The Negaunee Downtown Historic District comprises the historic commercial heart of the city. The district attains most of its character from the consistency of the numerous commercial blocks in the central business district and several fine public buildings and churches. The business blocks transition to schools and churches in the north end of the district, and to railroad-related and industrial buildings to the south. Particularly along the three blocks of Iron and Jackson streets and the intersecting Gold and Silver streets and Pioneer Avenue and Division Street is located Negaunee’s traditional downtown, much of it occupied by two-story blocks standing in rows along the sidewalk line. The downtown’s character is framed by its typically brick, Victorian buildings, but the streetscapes provide a variety of styles, materials, and architectural workmanship. Despite the recent demolitions of the national register-listed Sundberg Block in the 500 block of Iron Street in November, 2016, and the Kirkwood Block in the 300 block of Iron Street in September, 2019, the district presents generally cohesive streetscapes. The district is irregular in form and has a maximum north-south length of about 1300 feet (395 meters) and an east-west width of about 1600 feet (485 meters). Its streets are generally in a grid, although Jackson Street forms a break, the blocks north being oriented more northeast-southwest and the blocks south of it east-west. The district contains seventy-three buildings and two objects in total. These date from the early 1870s to the mid 1960s, but include four newer buildings. Landmark buildings include the Negaunee City Hall, the Negaunee Fire Hall, Late Victorian commercial Section 7 page 5 blocks built employing to varying degrees the local sandstone, Neoclassical bank buildings, a movie theater, Neoclassical schools, and Neo-Gothic and Romanesque Revival-influenced churches. The seventy-five properties in the district include: four previously listed in the national register, the Negaunee Fire Hall, the Marquette & Western Railroad Depot, the Vista Theater, and the Negaunee State Bank Building; fifty-five buildings and objects that Contribute to the historic district; and sixteen buildings that are evaluated as Non-Contributing. ______________________________________________________________________________ Narrative Description Negaunee, in Michigan’s north central Upper Peninsula inland from Lake Superior, is located “in the heart of the Marquette Iron Range” (Western Historical 1883: 452), also known to Geologists as the Negaunee Iron Formation. This is a deposit of hematite ore that extends from near Marquette westward nearly to the base of the Keweenaw Peninsula. Discovered in the 1840s, it includes the vicinity of the City of Negaunee. Negaunee owes its founding and development to the iron mines. The site of the Jackson Mine, Negaunee’s first producer, is within the city limits in the southeastern portion of the city, and others that opened soon after anchored the economy of the community from its establishment through most of the twentieth century. Development at the location of Negaunee was haphazard until 1865, when J. P. Pendill filed his plat named Iron and the Pioneer Co. filed its plat named Negaunee, together being the blocks upon which the city’s business district grew. These plats resulted in standard size lots and orderly development evident in the downtown today. The mines, which set the tone for the economic life and resulting growth of Negaunee, to varying degrees also provided