View of a portion of Iron Mountain's West Side

West Side of Iron Mountain with Central School, St. Mary’s Catholic Church, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and Crystal Lake, ca. 1897: Probably taken in the late 1890’s, the camera faces southwest overlooking a portion of Iron Mountain’s West Side. At the left the rooftop of the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, located on the southeast corner of Prospect Avenue and West B Street, is visible. The Central School, the two-story white building with the large belfry located just to the right of center, faced Prospect Avenue on the east end of the block where Iron Mountain High School was built in 1911. The Central School was moved to the site of the present Central School when construction on the new high school began. St. Mary’s Catholic Church, right, was located at the northeast corner of South Kimberly Avenue and West B Street. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church stood at the northwest corner of Prospect Avenue and West A Street where St. Mary and St. Joseph Catholic Church stands today. The Patient Hotel, later known as the Hotel Harding, can be identified by the mansard roof with dormers on its third story. This hotel was located at the southwest corner of Carpenter Avenue and West Hughitt Street. [Menominee Range Historical Museum]