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CALUMET
POINTS OF INTEREST
Downtown Calumet. Bustling again, downtown was hopping 24 hours a day when the mining boom was at its zenith, from 1890 to 1913. Today it features Ste. Anne's ethnic museum, lavish historic taverns, plus outstanding shops and galleries: skis, bikes, copper books and gifts, minerals, jewelry, beads, art glass, Ojibwa pottery, beads, and more ...
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Coppertown Mining Museum and Gift Shop. Mining aficionados, woodworkers, and those interested in machines, foundries, and labor and Copper Country history won't want to miss this seasonal museum. ...
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Calumet Theatre and Village Hall. One of the Kewenaw's glories, the elaborate 1899 opera house looks much as it did when touring stars played here in mining days. Authentically restored paintings and ornament. A memorable venue for concerts, films, plays. Tours available. ...
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Norwegian Lutheran Church. Norwegian Lutheran Church resembling Old Country architecture, once a wreck, being painstakingly restored. ...
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Calumet's North End. Cheap, often ornate historic storefronts have attracted several original shops: a bookshop/coffee bar, art gallery, dazzling antiques/gems/jewelry store, and the area's best frame shop. ...
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Site of the 1913 Italian Hall Disaster. 73 people, mostly children, died in the stampede that followed when someome yelled "Fire!" in the Italian social hall. It was the 1913 copper strike's defining event, memorialized in song by Woody Guthrie and others, and in story, photos, vivid websites, and a film. ...
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St. Paul the Apostle Church. A magnificentl Catholic church built by Slovenians between 1903 and 1908. Seasonal afternoon tours show off the splendid stained glass, paintings, and altar. ...
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C&H Library/future Keweenaw History Center. Built by the wealthy Calumet & Hecla copper company as a community library, this unusual stone-faced building contains office and work areas of the Keweenaw National Historic Park. Some day it will house the Keweenaw History Center. ...
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Keweenaw Convention and Visitors Bureau. Free tourism and history handouts and knowledgeable advice. Booklet and website include all Keweenaw parks and natural areas. A highly recommended stop for anyone spending time in the area. ...
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Calumet Restaurants
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See also Laurium, Lake Linden, Dollar Bay, Eagle River, Hancock, Houghton.
MICHIGAN HOUSE CAFE and BREWPUB
(906) 337-1910
Now there's good food to match one of Copper Country's most memorable settings, the elaborate and intact barroom of the Michigan House hotel, complete with stained glass, old booths, multi-colored tile floor, original back bar, and scenic mural of Bosch beer drinkers in a biergarten setting.
Tasty, often imaginative food covers a lot of bases, from half a dozen half-pound burgers of certified Angus beef to wraps to meal-size salads to soups to fresh fish entrées like trout marinated in citrus bourbon ($10), grilled in butter, or planked ($13). Vegetarian options abound, including black bean-quinoa burgers. In addition to plated entrées, dinners include bread sticks, vegetable of the day, and a house salad. Owners Tim and Sue Bies try new things, but if they don't sell moderately well, they go off the menu in three months. Panini sandwiches (grilled in an Italian sandwich press; $6-$7) are favorites; so is Annie's Pasta, made with squash with and without chicken ($7.45 and $9). Right now they're keen on sandwiches made with peppadew, a new trademarked fruit of African origin that resembles a tomato and a hot pepper. A new Michigan House extra: wi-fi internet access throughout the building. Service is leisurely. The Michigan House is a good place to relax and chat, to work on a computer, but not to have a quick bite before an upcoming engagement.
The new brewpub makes one "vintage" beer, called Oatmeal Express. Customers seem to like it, because it's selling as well as other draft beers, currently Bell's Oberon, South Shore Nut Brown, and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. The interesting story behind the brew is on the Michigan House's engaging, informative web site. In striving for a hearty, full-flavored beer like Bosch of the pre-Prohibition era, they read up and discovered that coffee and oatmeal were common ingredients then, distinctive today. Check the site for occasional weekend entertainment and for particulars and photos of the two upstairs apartments with kitchens, sleeping two and four, rented for $55 and $60/night weekdays, $70 and $75 weekends, $350 and $400/week, dogs and children welcome.
600 Oak at Sixth downtown. Open daily 11:30-10 except closed Wednesday. Bar also closes at 10. Wheelchair access: yes, through entrance by bike and ski shop. Family-friendly. Full bar, longish wine list.
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