The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-12-27
HALL Will SOON
BE COMPLETED
NEW FINNISH STRUCTURE WILL
BE ONE OF LARGEST IN
CITY. OTHER eUlLo.
ING WORK

Building as a general thing is now
at a standstill i'm Hancock. with the
exception of the work on the Finnish
Socialist hall on Tezcuco and White
streets, which is being pushed TO a
completion as rapidly as possible nv
Contractor Archie Verville. who also
has i'm hand the construction of the tn
berculosis sanitarium on the south side
of the lake near the inhrmary.
The Finnish hall will be one OF the
largest structures in the city. with an
auditorium capable of seating about
a thousand people. The work on the
structure was started couple of
years ago but was delayed for various
reasons until this last fall the con-
tract TO go ahead and finish the lob
was given to Mr.. Verville. who now
has large force of men at work do.
ing the Interior work, the lathing be-
Ing now under way.
The exterior is of brick veneer of a
light shade of brick with darker trim
mings and presenting a neat and at
tractive appearance The main floor is
fitted up as a large hall for conven-
tions, lectures, entertainments, etc.
many Of which are staged from time
To- time during the season, mostly at
the Kerredge theater. one of these
was given before a good sized audi
ence IN Monday night.
Beautiful Structure.
The auditorium Is about fifty feet
wide and about sixty deep, with high
ceiling and with gallery extending
around the sides. The building is en-
tered from the Tezcuco street side.
The White street end OF the struc-
ture is occupied by a stage. forty feet
wide and about twenty feet deep, fitted
with every appliance and equipment
of an up-to-date theater, including
half a dozen dressing rooms arranged
In three tiers on the west side of the
building. with stage entrance opening
on White street. The hall will be
brilliantly illuminated with electric
lights and the installation of the cleo
trio wiring and fixtures is in the hards
of Ed Cuff of Hancock.
The first floor or as il would look
with club rooms, cloak rooms, dining
room, kitchens, baths. reading room,
etc, and when completed, the struc-
ture will be one of the finest and big
gest buildings for similar purposes i'm
the upper peninsula. 1t will cost about
$4,000. the amount being raised from
the proceeds of entertainments given
ir the past eight or ten years, during
which period the project Of erecting
such n "workingmen's home" has
been under consideration. 1t will be
completed early in the spring. and II
ia planned TO have elaborate exercises
at the dedication, with addresses by
orators Of national prominence.
Other Buildings Of 1911.
The only other large structure built
In Hancock during the year 1911 was
the Orpheum theater, erected by w II.
Nilsson at n cost of about ten thousand
dollars and leased by him to ID. e.
Rice as n vaudeville and moving pic
ture theater. The contract for the
building was let last spring to Gau-
thier Brothers and was completed and
opened TO the public early in August.
It is built of solid brick, two stories In
height in front and the front divided
into two sections. one of which Is
used as the theater lobby the other
as 1.-THE Workbox" store.
Alterations have been made TO the
fronts of several Quincy street busl-
ness houses. the most extensive
changes being those effected at the
Grinnell Brothers store in the Rouleau
building, where new plate glass front
has been put in and office rooms par
titioned off on the second floor tor-
merly occupied by the talking machine
department. the latter now being piac-
cd in the basement.
The small building adjoining the HI
herman hall and formerly used as
laundry was remodeled during the past