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Title
View of the east side of Quinnesec Avenue looking north
Institution
Dickinson County Library

Subject
Cities and towns -- Michigan -- Upper Peninsula

Subject
Hotels

Item Number
AF01a058

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 the east side of Quinnesec Avenue looking north in the village of Quinnesec. This is the area between Pine Street on the south and Brule Street and beyond on the north. The Chicago & North-Western Railway tracks are in the foreground. The Quinnesec Hotel was managed by A. Clement. A bit farther up the street is the Commercial Dining Hall, run by W.W. Felch. Wright Brothers general store, run by Jason K. and Anson W. Wright, is just up the block. The two-story brick building on the north side of Paint Street is Buell's Opera house.

View of the east side of Quinnesec Avenue looking north

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