Metropolitan Store in Felch, Michigan

Metropolitan Store, Felch, Felch Township, Dickinson County, Michigan, ca. 1907-1910: This real photo postcard view identified as “Felch, Mich. E.R.B.” was taken by E.R.B. (Ernest Robert Brukardt, amateur photographer who worked as a railroad station agent in Felch) in about 1907-1910. J.B. Fry was running the Metropolitan Hotel in Metropolitan by 1889, when Felch Township was still a part of Marquette County. Fry continued as the hotel’s proprietor until at least 1895. John J. Ovist acquired the building between 1903 and 1905, operating a general store. The store retained the name Metropolitan Store even after the settlement took the name Felch in the latter part of the first decade of the twentieth century when this photograph was taken. Ovist sold his business to Carl A. Carlson, John Blomquist and Iver Blomquist in late March or early April, 1916. They operated the business under the name of the Felch Supply Company. In later years employees lived in apartments upstairs. Axel Branback was the last occupant. Note the horse tied to a post, patiently waiting while his owner purchased the supplies needed at home. [Leona Coppo], Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Abstract/Description: Metropolitan Store, Felch, Felch Township, Dickinson County, Michigan, ca. 1907-1910: This real photo postcard view identified as “Felch, Mich. E.R.B.” was taken by E.R.B. (Ernest Robert Brukardt, amateur photographer who worked as a railroad station agent in Felch) in about 1907-1910. J.B. Fry was running the Metropolitan Hotel in Metropolitan by 1889, when Felch Township was still a part of Marquette County. Fry continued as the hotel’s proprietor until at least 1895. John J. Ovist acquired the building between 1903 and 1905, operating a general store. The store retained the name Metropolitan Store even after the settlement took the name Felch in the latter part of the first decade of the twentieth century when this photograph was taken. Ovist sold his business to Carl A. Carlson, John Blomquist and Iver Blomquist in late March or early April, 1916. They operated the business under the name of the Felch Supply Company. In later years employees lived in apartments upstairs. Axel Branback was the last occupant. Note the horse tied to a post, patiently waiting while his owner purchased the supplies needed at home. [Leona Coppo]
Subject(s): Company stores
Felch (Mich.)
Date Created: 1900 (approximate)
Title: Metropolitan Store in Felch, Michigan.
Name(s): Dickinson County Library, contributor
Cummings, William John, contributor
Coppo, Leona, contributor
Superiorland Library Cooperative, contributor
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1900 (approximate)
Physical Form: photographs
Extent: 1 item
Abstract/Description: Metropolitan Store, Felch, Felch Township, Dickinson County, Michigan, ca. 1907-1910: This real photo postcard view identified as “Felch, Mich. E.R.B.” was taken by E.R.B. (Ernest Robert Brukardt, amateur photographer who worked as a railroad station agent in Felch) in about 1907-1910. J.B. Fry was running the Metropolitan Hotel in Metropolitan by 1889, when Felch Township was still a part of Marquette County. Fry continued as the hotel’s proprietor until at least 1895. John J. Ovist acquired the building between 1903 and 1905, operating a general store. The store retained the name Metropolitan Store even after the settlement took the name Felch in the latter part of the first decade of the twentieth century when this photograph was taken. Ovist sold his business to Carl A. Carlson, John Blomquist and Iver Blomquist in late March or early April, 1916. They operated the business under the name of the Felch Supply Company. In later years employees lived in apartments upstairs. Axel Branback was the last occupant. Note the horse tied to a post, patiently waiting while his owner purchased the supplies needed at home. [Leona Coppo]
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Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3
Subject(s): Company stores
Felch (Mich.)
Held by: Dickinson County Library
Restrictions on Access: No Copyright (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
Is Part Of: Dickinson County Library photographs. Identifier: SLC-005
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