The Daily Stamp — Tuesday, August 25, 2026

The Douglass House hotel in Houghton around 1908, a long light brick building with an arched ground-floor loggia and ornate corner cupolas, seen from above with streetcar tracks and trees along the street below.

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A Copper Town Hired Two Men Out of Louis Sullivan’s Chicago Office to Build Its Hotel in 1899. One of Them Went On to Build Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterpieces.

Houghton's Douglass House doubled to 100 rooms in 1899, designed by an Adler and Sullivan draftsman and built by Paul Mueller, who later built Frank Lloyd…

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