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Perry Hannah House
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Location305 6th St.,
Traverse City, Michigan
Coordinates 44°45′40″N85°37′36″W / 44.76111°N 85.62667°W / 44.76111; -85.62667 Coordinates: 44°45′40″N85°37′36″W / 44.76111°N 85.62667°W / 44.76111; -85.62667
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1891 (1891)
Architect William G. Robinson
Architectural style Queen Anne
NRHP reference No. 72000617 [1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMarch 16, 1972
Designated MSHSOctober 29, 1971 [2]

The Perry Hannah House, also known as the Reynolds-Jonkhoff Funeral Home, is a house located at 305 6th Street in Traverse City, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 [2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [1]

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History

Perry Hannah was born in 1824 in Erie County, Pennsylvania, the son of E. L. and Ann Hannah. [3] In 1837 the Hannahs moved to St. Clair County, Michigan, and Perry soon was employed in rafting logs from Port Huron to Detroit. He was later employed in a Port Huron store, but in 1846 moved to Chicago to clerk at a lumberyard. In 1850, he formed a partnership with A. Tracy Lay and James Morgan, called Hannah, Lay, and Co. In 1851, the firm purchased land near Traverse City and began logging.

In 1852, Hannah married Ann Amelia Flynn; the couple had three children. [3] In 1854 the Hannahs permanently moved to Traverse City, where Perry Hannah guided Hannah, Lay, and Co. to immense profits, expanding into banking, milling, real estate, and wholesale and retail sales. In 1886, they divested the lumbering portion of the business. By the 1890s, Hannah, Lay, and Co. was worth tens of millions of dollars.

The Perry Hannah House was designed in 1891 by Grand Rapids architect William G. Robinson for Hannah. [2] It was completed in 1893. [4] Hannah used the house as his retirement home, living there until his death in 1904. The house then passed to his daughter-in-law, Elsie Hannah. Years later, unable to afford the upkeep of the house, Elsie Hannah planned to demolish it. However, demolition also proved too costly, and she donated the house to the American Legion. The Legion sold it to the owner of Weaver's Funeral Home, who converted it into a funeral parlor, making almost no alterations to the original house. In 1976, the Reynolds-Jonkhoff Funeral Home began using the home; they still operate it and maintain the house.

Description

The Perry Hannah House occupies a large double lot on the corner of Sixth and Pine streets. [2] It is a three-story asymmetric brick Queen Anne structure clad with clapboard siding and round corner turrets. The house sits on a granite foundation and is capped with a hip roof; a wide veranda nearly encircles the structure. A 2+1⁄2-story carriage house, now used as a garage, sits behind the house.

Inside the house are 40 rooms located on four floors, with a total of 14,000 square feet (1,300 m2). [4] The house contains ten fireplaces, eight with handmade Venetian tiles. The woodwork features many types of wood, including cherry, birch, beech, birds-eye and curly maple, oak, dark oak, walnut, and Brazilian mahogany.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Hannah, Perry, House". Historic Sites Online. Michigan State Housing Development Authority. Archived from the original on March 1, 2014. Retrieved February 22, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Cyclopedia of Michigan. New York: Western Publishing and Engraving Co. 1900. p.  80. OCLC   3564202 – via Internet Archive.
  4. 1 2 "The Magnificent Mansion". Reynolds-Jonkhoff Funeral Home. Retrieved February 22, 2014.
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