View looking southeast, shortly after the 1906 Quinnesec fire

Remains of Quinnesec Following the May 18, 1906 Fire, Quinnesec, Breitung Township, Dickinson County, Michigan, May 1906: This unused black-and-white halftone postcard identified as “Quinnesec, Mich., after the Fire” with an undivided back dates from shortly after the May 18, 1906 fire which destroyed much of Quinnesec’s business district. The two-story brick building at the left was Buell’s Opera House, located at the northeast corner of Quinnesec Street and Paint Street (now U.S. 2). At the far right was the St. Denis home, one of two buildings which survived the fire visible in this photograph. The other is the white building in the center of the photograph which was the Catholic church rectory. The Church of the Immaculate Conception, just east of the rectory, was destroyed in the conflagration. The structure under construction at the corner opposite the opera house was built by John McKenna. Lumber for this building was delivered on Monday, May 21, just three days following the fire, and the carpenters finished construction on Monday, June 11. That evening a dance was held in the new building to celebrate, and then John Biolo opened his saloon there. The vacant lots to the right of McKenna’s new building and across the street previously contained Quinnesec’s business district. [William J. Cummings]