Marquette City Hall

	Marquette City Hall
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Michigan State Historic Site
	Hall in 2009
Location	204 Washington St., Marquette, Michigan
Coordinates	46°32′38″N87°23′45″W / 46.54389°N 87.39583°W Coordinates: 46°32′38″N87°23′45″W / 46.54389°N 87.39583°W
Area	less than one acre
Built	1894
Built by	Emil Bruce
Architect	Andrew Lovejoy, Edward Demar
Architectural style	Richardsonian Romanesque, Second Empire, Renaissance Revival
NRHP reference #	75000956 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	April 11, 1975
Designated MSHS	October 7, 1974 [2]

Last updated April 23, 2019

The Marquette City Hall is a former government building located at 204 Washington Street in Marquette, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975^[3] and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974.^[2]

Marquette is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Marquette County. The population was 21,355 at the 2010 census, making it the largest city of the state's Upper Peninsula. Marquette is a major port on Lake Superior, known primarily for shipping iron ore, and is the home of Northern Michigan University. In 2012, Marquette was listed among the 10 best places to retire in the United States by CBS MoneyWatch.

National Register of Historic Places federal list of historic sites in the United States

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance. A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred preserving the property.

History

Up until 1893, the city of Marquette had no designated City Hall, and was indeed using, rent-free, a building owned by Peter White.^[4] However, when White informed the city that their lease had run out, civic pride prodded the government to plan the construction of a new city hall.^[4] The city held a special election to allow the issuance of bonds to pay for the building; on receiving an overwhelming approval, they hired local architects Andrew Lovejoy and Edward Demar to design the building.^[2]^[4] Contractor Emil Bruce constructed the building at a cost of slightly under $50,000.^[4] Part of the contract gave preference to locally sourced building material, and the demand for bricks and sandstone was great enough that the local economy was bolstered through the depression that lingered through the early 1890s.^[2] The cornerstone was laid in May 1894,^[4] and the building was completed later in the year^[2] and dedicated in early 1895.

Peter White (Michigan) one of the original settlers of Marquette, Michigan

Peter Quintard White was one of the original settlers of Marquette, Michigan. He was a banker, businessman, real estate developer, and a philanthropist; and was involved in a number of the area's iron mining-related businesses, including acting as a director the Cleveland Iron Company. White served in many local and state public offices, including postmaster, county clerk, school board member, state representative and senator, and as a member of the state library commission and a Regent of the University of Michigan. Poet William Henry Drummond said of White, "the trail Peter White has cut through life is blessed by acts of private charity and deeds of public devotion that will serve as a guide to those who follow in the footsteps of a truly great, and above all, good man."

The city used the building until 1975, and it was then sold to a private developer who refurbished it into professional offices.^[4]

Description

The Marquette City Hall is a three-story rectangular building, measuring 92 by 72 feet (28 by 22 m),^[4] combining Richardsonian Romanesque, Second Empire, and Renaissance Revival architectural elements. It is constructed of red brick on a raised sandstone foundation, and surmounted by a tiled Mansard roof with a cupola. The front facade is divided by quoins into five bays. The central bay contains a recessed entrance, while the remaining front bays contain two-story arched windows. The remaining sides of the structure contain ribbon windows.^[2]

Richardsonian Romanesque is a style of Romanesque Revival architecture named after architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838–1886), whose masterpiece is Trinity Church, Boston (1872–1877), designated a National Historic Landmark. Richardson first used elements of the style in his Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane in Buffalo, New York, designed in 1870.

Renaissance Revival architecture is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes. Under the broad designation "Renaissance architecture" nineteenth-century architects and critics went beyond the architectural style which began in Florence and central Italy in the early 15th century as an expression of Humanism; they also included styles we would identify as Mannerist or Baroque. Self-applied style designations were rife in the mid- and later nineteenth century: "Neo-Renaissance" might be applied by contemporaries to structures that others called "Italianate", or when many French Baroque features are present.

A mansard or mansard roof is a four-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterized by two slopes on each of its sides with the lower slope, punctured by dormer windows, at a steeper angle than the upper. The steep roof with windows creates an additional floor of habitable space, and reduces the overall height of the roof for a given number of habitable stories. The upper slope of the roof may not be visible from street level when viewed from close proximity to the building.

Inside, a main hall runs the full depth of the building, with stairs rising to the second floor.^[4] The second floor contained a council chamber that rose two stories.^[4]

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References

↑ National Park Service (March 13, 2009). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
1 2 3 4 5 6 State Historic Preservation Office (n.d.). "Marquette City Hall". Historic Sites Online. Michigan State Housing Development Authority. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
↑ Eckert, Kathryn (November 11, 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Places Inventory Nomination Form: Marquette City Hall" (PDF). The National Archives Catalog. National Park Service . Retrieved January 28, 2016.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Eckert, Kathryn Bishop (2000). The Sandstone Architecture of the Lake Superior Region. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. pp. 126–130. ISBN 0-8143-2807-5 – via Google Books.

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

[state-2] 1 2 3 4 5 6 State Historic Preservation Office (n.d.). "Marquette City Hall". Historic Sites Online. Michigan State Housing Development Authority. Retrieved July 13, 2011.

[nom-3] Eckert, Kathryn (November 11, 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Places Inventory Nomination Form: Marquette City Hall" (PDF). The National Archives Catalog. National Park Service . Retrieved January 28, 2016.

[sandstone-4] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Eckert, Kathryn Bishop (2000). The Sandstone Architecture of the Lake Superior Region. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. pp. 126–130. ISBN 0-8143-2807-5 – via Google Books.