Hulst High School, Fulton School and Lowell School

Nelson P. Hulst High School, Fulton School, Lowell School, Madison Avenue, Iron Mountain, ca. 1905: Photograph of the Hulst High School and the two annexes near it built in the early 1900s. The Fulton School, also known as the manual training school, was built to the northeast of the Hulst school (appearing at the far right in the back), opening after the Christmas holidays in January, 1904. Manual training classes were taught in the eastern first-floor classrooms and in the basement, where an engine powered by compressed air coming from a four-inch pipe running from the Chapin Mine air pipe ran the machinery. Home economics classes were taught on the second floor and a special classroom in the southwest corner on the first floor was for “deaf and dumb” students. The contract for the Lowell School, a four-room building housing grades one through four, was let in early June, 1904. To allow students to pass from one building to the other during inclement weather, an enclosed ramp spanned the gap between the Hulst and Fulton schools, while a tunnel connected the Hulst and Lowell schools. The Hulst and Fulton schools fell to the wrecker’s ball in April, 1949. The Lowell School, used as a wood products manufacturing plant for some time, was abandoned in 1957, vandalized by area children and finally gutted by fire July 18, 1960. This photograph was taken by Iron Mountain amateur photographer Adolph Anderson shortly after the Lowell School was completed. [Menominee Range Historical Museum]