Thomas H. Hoatson House
historic house in Michigan, United States
The Thomas H. Hoatson House (now known as the Laurium Manor Inn) is a house located at 320 Tamarack Street in Laurium, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. At 13,000 square feet (1,200 m2), it is the largest mansion in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Thomas H. Hoatson
The house was designed by Charles W. Maass and brother, Frederick A. Maass and built in 1908 for Thomas Hoatson Jr. Hoatson's father, Thomas Sr., emigrated from his native Scotland to Canada in 1852. Thomas Sr. arrived in Bruce Mines, Ontario, where, on October 20, 1861, Thomas Jr. was born. In 1865, the family moved to the United States, first to Houghton, Michigan where Thomas Sr. worked at the Quincy Mine, then to Greenland, Michigan and the Ridge Mine.
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