Historic Marquette Summer Bus Tours ~ 2025 ~

​Images to accompany the 2025 tours in order of tour below. 

Photographs are subject to copyright. Please do not reproduce without permission. Contact our library for print copies of most of the below photos. Thank you.

Picture 1: Marquette County Courthouse main courtroom interior. This building, retaining it's original design today and still in use, was finished in 1904.

Picture 2: The original St Peter's Cathedral on Superior Street (now Baraga Ave) in Marquette.

Picture 3: The second cathedral on the same site, built in 1881. Notice the shorter towers from today's building.

Picture 4: Harlow's Wooden Man Statue built by Amos Harlow and friends in 1874.

Picture 5: Harlow's Wooden Man Statue still stands today on private property.

Picture 6: St John's Catholic Church on Washington Street, Marquette.

Picture 7: Marquette Chronicle headline August 23, 1918.

Picture 8: Abraham Fleury Jr Military Portrait.

Picture 9: Abraham Fleury Jr, with family. Image use courtesy of Fleury family.

Pictures 10: Abraham Fleury Jr, with family. Image use courtesy of Fleury family.

Picture 11: Abraham Fleury Jr with mother Louise. Image use courtesy of Fleury family.

Picture 12: Abe Fleury Jr on drums. Christian's Jazz Orchestra, Marquette, 1921.

Picture 13: Peter White Library before its later addition to the west.

Picture 14: Hotel Northland, now the Landmark Inn

Picture 15: the house that was written about and became the "dandelion cottage." Here in its former location down Arch Street.

Picture 16: The original Dandelion Cottage novel cover.

Picture 17: The Longyear estate. View from Cedar Street. The property extended from Arch to Ridge Street along Cedar, and down to the lake.

Picture 18: Lower Harbor in 1873. As painted here by Edwin Shrottkey. View the original painting at the Marquette Regional History Center.

Picture 19: Hugh Malloy and Rose McCauley Malloy. Photo courtesy of the family for museum use.

Picture 20: Hugh Malloy (second from right) and fellow working fishermen. Photo for museum use courtesy of the family.

Picture 21: Anderson Fishing Company, Marquette.

Picture 22: Trestle crossing Front Street, Marquette. Looking west. (Mining Journal Photo)

Picture 23: Harkins Hill current houses, 310-316 East Michigan Street.

Picture 24: Company M, at Shiras Park Marquette, 1917.

Picture 25: The Palestra ice arena on Fair Ave, view looking west. c 1940.

Picture 26: Vida and John Lautner Sr Home, 1924.

Picture 27: Kaye Hall and Longyear Hall, 1920s, at Northern Normal School (now NMU).

Picture 28: Kaye Hall interior, Northern Normal School.

Picture 29: Kathleen Shingler, 1929 Mining Journal article "She's Biologist;" / Lower left in Phys Ed / with colleagues during her graduate work. Images courtesy of Jack Weston.

Picture 30: Kathleen at microscope / At age 106 / on visit back to NMU. Images courtesy of Jack Weston.

Picture 31: Jean Weston and Kathleen Shingler Weston. Image courtesy of Jack Weston.

Picture 32: W. College Ave looking east, 2019. The former MGH (1973-2013) and then UP Health System Hospital. (Google images).

Picture 33: W. College Ave looking west, 2019. The former MGH (1973-2013) and then UP Health System Hospital. St. Lukes building and MRI imaging suite on left. (Google images).

Picture 34: Alvar Liimatainen's medals on permanent display at the History Center.

Picture 35: Alvar Liimatainen (1919-1942). Guide speaks of him buried at Park Cemetery.

Picture 36: Park Cemetery, 1887.

Picture 37: Park Cemetery, 1887.

Picture 38: Author of Anatomy of a Murder, John Voelker (pen name Robert Traver) foreground, with the cast of the Hollywood film, 1959, at the Marquette County Courthouse.

Picture 39: Teddy Roosevelt, center, leaving the Marquette County Courthouse, May, 1913.

Picture 40: Jury for former president Teddy Roosevelt at Marquette County Courthouse, May 1913.

Picture 41: A&P Grocery Store, c 1969, which was later the Marq Tran bus station, and now the Marquette Regional History Center. Corner of Spring & Third Streets.