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Copper Country Architects

Charles Archibald Pearce

by Katie Torrey

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  1. 1870 U.S. Manuscript Census. Stephen Theodore Pearce family in Liberty, Frederick Co., Maryland. Bishop's College School student record. Bishop's College School Archives, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada.
  2. 1900 U.S. Manuscript Census.
  3. Alexander, East Hancock Revisited, 12. 1881 Canadian Census.
  4. Bishop's College School student record. Bishop's College School Archives, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada.
  5. Personal communication with Norman and Larry Pearce, November 24, 2005.
  6. Architectural drawings by Charles Archibald Pearce dated 1893. Collection of Norman Pearce.
  7. Marriage License for Charles A. Pearce and Nina Collins, February 1900, Houghton Co. Clerk’s Office, Houghton, Michigan.
  8. Personal communication with Norman and Larry Pearce, November 24, 2005. Personal communication with Donna Pearce. November 25, 2005.
  9. Personal communication with Norman and Larry Pearce, November 24, 2005.
  10. Personal communication with Norman Pearce, April 16, 1996.
  11. Personal communication with Norman and Larry Pearce, November 24, 2005.
  12. Eckert, Sandstone Architecture, 152-8. “Old Main,” National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1971).
  13. Alexander, East Hancock Revisited, 12.
  14. Probate records for Emma Jane Pearce, January 1908, Houghton Co. Probate Court, Houghton, Michigan. Obituary for Amy Pearce, Daily Mining Gazette, 21 February 1948. Obituary for Rhoda Pearce, Daily Mining Gazette, 2 May 1949.
  15. Letters from Amy Pearce, Rhoda Pearce, and Edith Edwards. Personal collection.
  16. Frank P. Allen, Artistic Dwellings (privately printed, Grand Rapids, Mich., 1892), Design No. 156.  My thanks to Ellen Croll for pointing this out.
  17. Alexander, East Hancock Revisited, 17.
  18. Notes provided by Ellen Croll, email to author, October 2009.
  19. Alexander, East Hancock Revisited, 25.
  20. Alison K. Hoagland, “Boarders and Mortgages: Homeownership Strategies for Copper-Mine Workers in Michigan,” paper delivered at Society for American City and Regional Planning History biannual conference, Miami, FL, October 2005.
  21. Hancock Historic Preservation Committee, “Hancock, Michigan: A Walking Tour,” brochure, 1995?.

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