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Old Quincy School ...scroll down to share comments

Sunday-What'sUP July 22 - 05:39 pm

By Charlie at Pasty Central (Chopper) on Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 08:05 am:

Below is an addendum to last week's discussion about the old Quincy School - and a photo from Charles Pomazal that answered a puzzling question:

By Charlie at Pasty Central (Chopper) on Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 09:21 am:

My Inbox often presents me with a Shoebox Memory mystery, like this one received from Henry Lehtola.

Henry says:

Here is a photo of "Quincy School", I don't recall ever seeing the building or even a photo before. My Aunt Irene (Bay) Belttari (1921-2008) attended school there before going on to graduate from Hancock High School.

An preliminary search reveals that the Old Quincy School was built around 1867 near Frenchtown (the road across US-41 from "Kowsit Lats" just before the shafthouse). It was destroyed by fire in 1927. Classes were temporarily moved to the company Clubhouse, but apparently a different school building was acquired (purchased? built?) and regular reports of the school's operation were turned in through the end of World War II. After that it is unclear what became of the school, as Quincy Mine closed in 1945. Though state financial reports from the school ceased in the late 40's, there were still lists of students around Christmas into the 60's. Does anyone have any information about the Old Quincy School that hasn't yet made it into the online database? Posting it here is one way to do just that.

Thanks for stopping by Pasty Central, and thanks to all who share their Shoebox Memories with us.

Have a good week :o)

By Shirley Waggoner (Shirlohio) on Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 09:46 am:

I love that building. Being a fan of architecture (used to draw house plans, etc.) I have always loved studying buildings from the past. Such a shame it was destroyed by fire.
Thanks, Henry and Charlie.

By Pat & Glenda (Gormfrog) on Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 11:12 am:

In the end, it will not be the computers..
or engineers..
or local politicians..
Or the governor of Michigan..
or the president and his congress..
who save our U.P. from gross urban-materialistic degradation. It will be our local populace, residents, who value our area, and it's heritage & history like what is represented in these "Shoebox Memories"!!

By Thomas Baird (Thomas) on Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 11:58 am:

Thanks 4 another piece of history.

By Tom (Tom) on Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 12:39 pm:

The Quincy School I remember had grades one through the eight. It was a brick building that was just
South (?) of Peterson's Fish Market. That would put it directly across from the Quincy Mine shaft house that is now a museum. It ran through
the 1940s. Where are pictures of that building?

By dan belo (Djbelo) on Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 04:41 pm:

THERE WAS A STONE ,GRADE SCHOOL BLDG ,ONE HALF MILE NORTH OF PETERSONS. IT WAS KNOCKED DOWN ABOUT 20 YRS AGO. I GUESS IT HAD ABOUT 8 SCHOOL ROOMS. I WENT TO A HALOWEEN DANCE THERE IN 1950.

By J T (Jtinchicago) on Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 08:26 pm:

Hi Charlie:

I have to ask, did you post pictures of two entirely different buildings? The top is the "Old Quincy School" but the bottom one is not quite close to the top photo.

The top photo has three windows on the end of the second floor and the lower photo has two, plus shutters. I can see a first floor addition but to rearrange the second floor windows from 3 to 2 doesn't make sense.

What happened to the chimney? Conversion to natural gas?

Perhaps the two photos are not meant to be of the same building.

JT

By Ken ja Mimi from da UP (Kenjamimi) on Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 11:15 pm:

It looks like another set of windows behind that crooked tree in the 3rd photo, doesn't it?

By Paul H. Meier (Paul) on Sunday, July 15, 2012 - 11:50 pm:

Same building at different times with the addition of a lean-to on the one end. The snow photo was earlier and at an angle the showed the tee at the rear. Some of the old wood buildings just sort of "grew" over time.

By Charles Pomazal (Cpomazal) on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 07:50 pm:

Sorry Folks! It is a simple case of printing backwards (negative reversed). The crooked tree was still there as late as 1990. The School 1/2 mile north of Peterson's was the Franklin School. Tom is referring to the Quincy Clubhouse, just south of Peterson's. Shirley - What do you mean a shame that it was destroyed by fire.....that was every kids dream!

Thanks, Charles, for clearing up the puzzle regarding the differences in architecture between the two photos on the July 15th Shoebox Memory. Here's the way the negative should have been developed:

You can see it is the same building from the opposite end:

By Charles Pomazal (Cpomazal) on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 08:20 pm:

The "Lean-to" on the one end was the bathrooms.

By Shirley Waggoner (Shirlohio) on Saturday, July 21, 2012 - 10:36 am:

I get your drift, Charles.;) Trouble is that in most cases, if one school burns down, kids are sent to another. So there's no out.:(

By Charlie at Pasty Central (Chopper) on Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 08:23 am:

We appreciate the "crooked tree" photo from Charles Pomazal, which certainly did clear up the mystery. At first I was reluctant to even post the negative print photo, thinking it was indeed a different building as JTinChicago had suggested. I would never had thought of "flipping" the picture if not for the shot of the tree.

By J T (Jtinchicago) on Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 10:12 am:

Greetings to all:

I have to agree with Mr. Pomazal that the second photo was originally reversed and that the two photos represent pictures of the same school house taken from opposite ends of the building. Thank you.

Hard to believe that years of not cutting down a tree for firewood was enough to solve a photo mystery in 2012.

Thank you Charlie for posting the "evidence".

JT, this week live from Chatham, MI

By Diana P. (Diana) on Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 10:17 am:

It's kind of sad to see the crooked tree surrounded by forest growing up, instead of in front of the school. It looks like there might be a large tree that has fallen in the background of the color photo ... maybe the tall tree that was "behind" the crooked tree in the correctly printed black-and-white negative?

By Shirley Waggoner (Shirlohio) on Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 10:38 am:

I'd be interested in knowing how the tree became crooked in the first place. Another mystery?:-]

By Alex "UP-Goldwinger" (Alex) on Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 01:24 pm:

Deja vu! There was a crooked man.

By Janie T. (Bobbysgirl) on Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 04:21 pm:

and he walked a crooked mile...

By Shirley Waggoner (Shirlohio) on Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 04:28 pm:

Wonder if he had a crooked 'smile'.;-/

By Shirley Waggoner (Shirlohio) on Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 04:32 pm:

Since there's time to spare, have any of you checked out the Capt.'s update and photos on 'Geology' today....really neat.

By Paul H. Meier (Paul) on Sunday, July 22, 2012 - 04:35 pm:

Chuck gets the prize for recognizing the flipped negative! The end lean-to does show up on the winter photo if one looks close. The chimney is also in both photos, albeit almost lost in the trees in the winter shot.

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