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Title
Iron Mountain's Central House
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Hotels

Subject
Portraits, Group

Item Number
AF01a193

Relation
Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3

Description
Photograph of Iron Mountain's Central House, located at 106 East ""B"" Street, was owned by Joseph Wenzel in 1892. Located just to the west of the Chicago & North-Western Railway tracks, an elevated platform made for easy loading and unloading of supplies. Many railroad workers roomed here.

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