East Hancock, Michigan

	East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Cooper Avenue Homes
Location	Roughly bounded by Front, Dunston and Vivian Sts., Mason and Cooper Aves., Hancock, Michigan
Coordinates	47°8′4″N 88°34′29″W / 47.13444°N 88.57472°W
Architect	H. T. Liebert, Et al.
Architectural style	Renaissance, Queen Anne, Shingle Style
NRHP reference No.	80001859
Added to NRHP	June 23, 1980

East Hancock is a primarily residential neighbourhood in Hancock, Michigan, though it also includes the easternmost block of Quincy Street, the main street of Hancock's downtown.^[2]

East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District[edit]

The East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district which is a substantial subsection of the East Hancock neighborhood. The District is bounded by Front Street, Dunston Street, Vivian Street, Mason Avenue, and Cooper Avenue, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

There are 88 residences in the East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District, along with a synagogue called Temple Jacob, a gas station, and a WPA project.^[3] The majority of the residences were built between 1890 and 1920.

History[edit]

The East Hancock neighborhood was formerly characterized by a number of deep ravines^[4] originally covered with wooden sidewalks^[5] that were filled in by the Dakota Heights Land Company; the neighbourhood was then "subdivided into residential lots". Development in the neighborhood began in the 1890s and surged in the early 1900s, when a rush of prosperity increased the number of relatively wealthy people in Hancock.^[3] The neighborhood brought together Hancock citizens involved in the business and mining sectors of the economy.^[3] Notable early residents of the area were primarily mine employees and managers. As mining declined in importance, more Hancock businessmen moved into the neighborhood.^[3]

Description[edit]

Many of the residences in East Hancock were designed by prominent local architects.^[3] Styles represented in the neighborhood include Queen Anne, Stick, Shingle, Neo-Classical, Renaissance Revival, and Bungaloid.^[3]

A principal feature is a WPA-project stone staircase "[descending] from "Cooper Avenue to Front Street".^[4]

Historically, East Hancock was important as the station from which the trolley departed to the Electric Park resort.^[5]

The East Hancock Neighborhood Association was formed in 1981.^[6] It is noted for many large houses in the Queen Anne, Renaissance and shingle styles [1].

The construction of the Canal Crossings Condominium by Moyle Inc. has obstructed some of the view of the neighbourhood from the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, one of the things for which the project has been criticised.[2]

Sources[edit]

East Hancock Revisited: History of a Neighborhood, Circa 1880 - 1920 (Eleanor A. Alexander, Hancock, Michigan: 1984)

Notes and references[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Alexander, Eleanor A. (1984). East Hancock Revisited: History of a Neighborhood Circa 1880-1920. p. 7.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District Archived 2012-03-18 at the Wayback Machine form the state of Michigan, retrieved 9/10/09
^ ^a ^b Eckert, Kathryn Bishop (1993). Buildings of Michigan. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 470. ISBN 978-0-19-509379-7.
^ ^a ^b Alexander, Eleanor A. (1984). East Hancock Revisited: History of a Neighborhood Circa 1880-1920. p. 4.
^ Alexander, Eleanor A. (1984). East Hancock Revisited: Story of a Neighborhood Circa 1880-1920.

External links[edit]

Media related to East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District at Wikimedia Commons

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.

[2] Alexander, Eleanor A. (1984). East Hancock Revisited: History of a Neighborhood Circa 1880-1920. p. 7.

[state-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District Archived 2012-03-18 at the Wayback Machine form the state of Michigan, retrieved 9/10/09

[Eckert_470-4] Eckert, Kathryn Bishop (1993). Buildings of Michigan. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 470. ISBN 978-0-19-509379-7.

[Alexander_1984_4-5] Alexander, Eleanor A. (1984). East Hancock Revisited: History of a Neighborhood Circa 1880-1920. p. 4.

[6] Alexander, Eleanor A. (1984). East Hancock Revisited: Story of a Neighborhood Circa 1880-1920.

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v t e National Register of Historic Places in Houghton County, Michigan
Historic districts	Big Traverse Bay Historic District Calumet and Hecla Industrial District Calumet Downtown Historic District East Hancock Neighborhood Historic District Lake Linden Historic District Laurium Historic District Painesdale Historic District Quincy Mining Company Stamp Mills Historic District Quincy Street Historic District Shelden Avenue Historic District
Historic properties	Calumet Fire Station Chassell School Complex College Club House and Gymnasium County Road C117–Pike River Bridge Douglass House First Congregational Church Hancock Town Hall and Fire Hall Houghton County Courthouse J. Vivian Jr. and Company Building Jacobsville Finnish Lutheran Church Kaleva Temple Keweenaw Waterway Lower Entrance Light Keweenaw Waterway Upper Entrance Light Keweenaw National Historical Park Lake Linden Village Hall and Fire Station Lieblein House John J. Michels House Joseph Bosch Building Old Hancock Central High School Old Main, Suomi College Quincy Mine No. 2 Shaft Hoist House Ransom B. Shelden House Redridge Steel Dam Saint Henry's Evangelical Lutheran Church and Cemetery Saint Ignatius Loyola Church Shelden-Dee Block Smith–Dengler House South Range Community Building The Calumet Theatre Thomas H. Hoatson House
National Historic Landmarks	Calumet Historic District Quincy Mining Company Historic District
Former listings	Italian Hall
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Houghton County, Michigan and List of National Historic Landmarks in Michigan

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