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| | name = 801 N. Rowe Street | |||
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| | location= 801 North Rowe St., ] | |||
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| | built = {{Start date|1890}} | |||
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| | refnum = 1100005785<ref name="nris">{{cite web | title = National Register of Historic Places Program: Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 11/6/2020 Through 11/13/2020 | publisher = National Park Service | url = https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/weekly-list-20201113.htm | access-date = October 23, 2022 }}</ref> | |||
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| '''801 N. Rowe Street''' in ], is the address of a three-story brick framework structure called by many locals as the ''Haskelite Building''. The Rowe Street building is in the Manufacturer's Addition of the city on the north side. The commercial platted land originally had three factory buildings constructed in the late nineteenth century to attract businesses and employment of which this manufacturing plant was one. The building has contained at least a dozen businesses in its 130 history and was known by many of their names. Its ultimate use has become as affordable housing for the residents of Ludington and is divided up into 67 apartments of various sizes known as ''Lofts on Rowe''. | |||
| ==Description== | |||
| The structure is three-stories and has load-bearing brick walls and a flat roof. The rectangular building was built on a stone and concrete foundation. | |||
| It is 60 feet wide and 300 feet long. The main entry has a cream brick surround within a large round-arch with a keystone. The entry is flanked by two large segmental-arch windows containing a single pane of glass and a transom above. The second and third floors each contain six 9-over-9 wood-sash, double-hung, segmental-arch windows.<ref name = "nom">{{cite | title = National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Haskell Manufacturing Company Building | author1 = Jennifer Metz | author2 = Rebecca Smith-Hoffman | date = January 2020}}</ref> | |||
| ==History== | |||
| A group of Ludington businessmen constructed three factories in 1892 in an early type ] in the Manufacturer's Addition of ]. They were intended to attract manufacturers that would provide employment and improve the city's economy through other businesses.<ref name = "nom"/> According to fire insurance maps the original structures were constructed between 1890 and 1892.<ref name=TorchLight>{{cite web |url=https://ludingtoncitizen.ning.com/forum/topics/history-of-the-haskelite-building |title=History of the Haskelite Building |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=August 9, 2019 |website=The Ludington Torch |publisher=Torch Light |access-date=October 23, 2022 |quote=Yet, many who know of its past will still refer to the building by the product its incredibly creative owner put out over 100 years ago, the Haskelite Building. }}</ref> The first company to purchase this factory at 801 N. Rowe Street was Mendelson Manufacturing Company and they used it to make men's clothing, in particular trousers and pants. The building then was known as the ''Mendelson building.''<ref name=Ludington+Expansion>{{cite web |url= https://www.shorelinemedia.net/ludington_daily_news/news/local/expansion-of-ludington-the-manufacturer-s-addition-part-2/article_a0f99e86-86c4-5412-8cd7-06f28d5a39e9.html |last= Jensen |first= James R. |title= Expansion of Ludington; The Manufacturing Addition: Part 2 |publisher= Shoreline Media Group |date= February 11, 2022 |access-date= October 23, 2022 }}</ref> They went out of business in 1894 and the Mendelson building became empty. Lumberman ] then acquired the empty ''old pants factory.''<ref name = "nom"/> He donated the structure to the Ludington Catholic church in 1899 with the intention to put a hospital in it and it then became known as the ''St. Simon's Catholic church hospital building.''<ref name=hospital>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date= July 8, 1899|title=Generous Gift |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111497577/detroit-free-press/ |work=Detroit Free Press |location=Detroit, Michigan |access-date=October 23, 2022}}</ref> The gift of the building was valued at $10,000 ({{Inflation|US|10000|1899|fmt=eq|r=-1}}). The hospital did not come to fruition and the building stayed empty for a few additional years.<ref name = "nom"/> | |||
| In 1904, the furniture makers Tubbs Manufacturing Company from ], took over the place. In 1907, they expanded the building to twice its original size and the formation became a total of 45,000 square feet. They manufactured wood products consisting of printer's cabinets and ]. They were there until 1911 and during this time the factory was known as the ''Tubbs Manufacturing Company Building'' and ''Tubbs Building.'' They employed 200 men at the facility. They also made furniture that was sold throughout the United States. The company went out of business in 1911 because of legal matters with Hamilton Company and sold all their assets including the factory.<ref name="nris"/><ref name = "nom"/> | |||
| <gallery class="center" widths=200px heights=200px> | |||
| File:Tubbs Mfg 1904.jpg|Tubbs building 1904 photograph | |||
| File:Tubbs Mfg 1906.jpg|Tubbs building 1905 illustration | |||
| File:Tubbs Mfg 1905.jpg|Tubbs building 1906 illustration | |||
| </gallery> | |||
| ] had the ] move into first and second floors of the building in 1911 under a lease, while the third floor was being leased to a cigar manufacturer.<ref name = "nom"/><ref name="CarromIndustries">{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Leonard P. |date=December 22, 1952 |title=Carrom Industries / from Lumber to Game Boards |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/803510/ |access-date=October 23, 2022 |language=en |newspaper=Ludington Daily News |location=Ludington, Michigan |via=] {{open access}}}}</ref> Haskell first made the Carrom board there for the game at the recently enlarged manufacturer building and it was then known as the big ''Carrom plant.''<ref name="CarromIndustries"/> He experimented with new ideas for Carrom boards and ultimately developed a waterproof glue out of ] in 1913 from which he glued together different thin plies of wood. Haskell named this plywood after himself, calling it ].{{sfn|John|1930|page=18}} The plywood could be shaped into three-dimensional patterns. Carrom became the largest manufacturer of pattern forming plywood in the United States.<ref name=CarromDiv>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date=September 3, 1965 |title=Carrom Company is Diversified |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111411956/the-ludington-daily-news/ |work=Ludington Daily News |location=Ludington, Michigan |access-date=October 23, 2022}}</ref> | |||
| ] for determining fire insurance on building<br>801 N. Rowe Street with Carrom Company occupying first + second floor]] | |||
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| Haskell then later in 1916 established the ] and acquired the building from John Hunholz, which at the time was known as ''the Hunholz building.'' How Hunholz acquired the building is unclear.<ref name = "nom"/> Haskell made not only Carrom boards but also airplane body parts,<ref name=LDN7_15_1943>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date= July 15, 1943|title= Ludington is Birthplace of Plywood Airplanes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5321938/15-july-1943-ludington-daily-news/|work=Ludington Daily News |location=Ludington, Michigan |via=] {{open access}} |access-date=October 23, 2022}}</ref> and parts for canoes and boats on a mass-production basis from the Haskelite plywood.<ref name=Tubbs>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title= Haskell Finances Company to Manufacture Canoes and Boats in Tubbs Building / Waterproof glue adds durability to veneer coatings |newspaper=Daily News|p=3 |location=Ludington, Michigan |date=October 19, 1916 }}</ref> He also made body parts for trucks, buses, and automobiles.<ref name=TorchLight/> At the time he used the building for these various products the brickwork complex construction was known as the ''Haskell Manufacturing Company building'', ''Haskell Manufacturing building'', ''Haskell plant'', ''Haskell factory'', ''Haskell Company building'',<ref name = "nom"/> ''Haskelite factory'',<ref name="Cinders">{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=June 8, 1930 |title=Connecting route in Whittier Street made by cinders |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111343960/the-ludington-daily-news/ |access-date=October 23, 2022 |language=en |newspaper=Ludington Daily News |location=Ludington, Michigan |via=] {{open access}} }}</ref> ''Haskelite factory building'',<ref name=LudingtonMachine/> ''Haskelite Building'',<ref name = "nom"/> and ''Haskelite plant.''<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cabot |first=James L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fxC4hZNgay8C&pg=PA114&dq=Haskelite+Building,+and+Haskelite+plant&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFtuiqpun6AhVFg4kEHeTjCvkQ6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&q=Haskelite%20Building%2C%20and%20Haskelite%20plant&f=false|title=Ludington : 1830-1930 |date=2005 |publisher=Arcadia |isbn=0-7385-3951-1 |location=Charleston, SC |page=114 |oclc=62380346}}</ref> | |||
| The Haskell Manufacturing Company formally changed its name to the Haskelite Company in 1917. Haskell then opened a second factory plant in ] in 1918 to make plywood on a larger scale and in the 1930s consolidated operations there. The ''Haskelite Building'',<ref name=LudingtonMachine>{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Leonard P. |date=January 29, 1953 |title=Industry on Parade / Ludington Machine & Tool |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111343771/the-ludington-daily-news/ |access-date=October 23, 2022 |language=en |newspaper=Ludington Daily News |location=Ludington, Michigan |via=] {{open access}} }}</ref> as many in Ludington call it, was then used less and less as time went on for production of plywood.<ref name = "nom"/> The building was completely empty by 1933 and the United States government leased the building from Haskell for its local ] headquarters and supply depot for Company 1666 of 118 local men.<ref name=LDN6_25_1933>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date= June 25, 1933|title=A Welcome to Our 118 New Residents |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22124853/welcoming-118-ccc-residence/ |work=Ludington Daily News |location=Ludington, Michigan |via=] {{open access}} |access-date=October 23, 2022}}</ref> In 1940 the Lower Michigan CCC district headquarters moved from Fort Custer at ] to the building at 801 N. Rowe Street which by then was known as the ''CCC building.''<ref name="CCC_headquarters">{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Leonard P. |date=September 28, 1940 |title=CCC Headquarters is opened here |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111287141/the-ludington-daily-news/ |access-date=October 23, 2022 |language=en |newspaper=Ludington Daily News |location=Ludington, Michigan |via=] {{open access}} }}</ref> | |||
| The CCC was disbanded in 1942 and they started leaving the Haskell building. They were completely gone by February 17, 1943.<ref name=LDN2_17_1943>{{cite news |author=<!--not stated--> |date= February 17, 1943|title=Former CCC Base is closed Today |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/30402606/the-ludington-daily-news/|work=Ludington Daily News |location=Ludington, Michigan |via=] {{open access}} |access-date=October 23, 2022}}</ref> Wolverine Sportswear Company next occupied the building and purchased it from Haskell in 1944.<ref>{{cite book |title=Michigan Manufacturer and Financial Record|last=MMFR |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LxUUAQAAMAAJ |date= 1944 |page=13 |publisher=Pick Publications }}</ref> It made sportswear producing coats and jackets at the building for 45 years at which time it was known as the ''Wolverine building.''<ref name="WolverineBuild">{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=February 27, 1973 |title=Help Wanted - A PRESSER |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111312044/the-ludington-daily-news/ |access-date=October 23, 2022 |language=en |newspaper=Ludington Daily News |location=Ludington, Michigan |via=] {{open access}} }}</ref> The final use as a commercial building was by Change Parts who occupied it from 1989 to 2019 making interchangable machine parts. It was then known as the ''Change Parts'' building and they placed their name above the front door. The business owners and possessors of the building donated it for conversion to affordable housing.<ref name=AffordableHousing>{{cite web |url= https://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/2019/10/donated-century-old-building-could-become-ludington-apartments.html |last= Moore |first= Lynn |title= Donated century-old building could become Ludington apartments |publisher= MLive Media Group |access-date= October 23, 2022 </ref> The newly refurbished building converted to residential apartments opened in 2022 and became known as ''Lofts on Rowe''. The building now contains 67 units, split between studios, one bedroom, two bedroom, and three bedroom apartments.<ref name = "open">{{cite news | title = Lofts on Rowe in Ludington Set to Open | date = September 23, 2022 | author = Joseph Boulter | newspaper = 9&10 News | url = https://www.9and10news.com/2022/09/23/lofts-on-rowe-in-ludington-set-to-open/ | access-date = October 23, 2022 }}</ref> | |||
| <gallery class="center" widths=150px heights=150px> | |||
| File:Haskelite Bld looking East.JPG|801 N. Rowe Street <br> ''Change Parts bldg'' - 20 years | |||
| File:Haskelite Bld looking SW.JPG|801 N. Rowe Street <br> Southwest view 2016 | |||
| File:Haskelite Bld looking West.JPG|801 N. Rowe Street <br> Southeast view 2016 | |||
| File:Haskelite Bld looking NE.JPG|801 N. Rowe Street <br> Northeast view 2016 | |||
| </gallery> | |||
| The Michigan low income housing authority that subsidizes the ''Lofts on Rowe'' apartments refers to the three-story brick framework by it original nineteenth-century name of the ''Mendelson Building.''<ref name=Ludington+Expansion/> The Michigan Economic Development Corporation that helped finance the remodeling project calls the structure that contains the ''Lofts on Rowe'' apartments the Haskell Building.<ref name=Lofts-Haskell>{{cite web |url=https://www.ludington.mi.us/DocumentCenter/View/1340/Final-Application-Haskell-Building|title=Project Name - Haskell Building |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=December 2, 2020 |website=Michigan Economic Development Corporation |publisher= City of Ludington, Michigan|access-date=October 23, 2022 |quote=}} </ref> The building developers restored the exterior to the 1890s architectural style so that it could be added to the ] (NRHP).<ref name=aims>{{cite news |last=Hausmann |first=Noah |date=August 16, 2019 |title=Developer aims to turn Rowe Street building into apartments |work=Ludington Daily News |location=Ludington, Michigan}}</ref> It was registered November 10, 2020.<ref name=NPS_NRHP>{{cite web |url= https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/weekly-list-20201113.htm |last= |first= |title= Weekly List 20201113 / Weekly actions taken |publisher= National Park Service |access-date= October 23, 2022 }}</ref> NRHP refers to 801 N. Rowe Street as the ''Mendelson building'', ''Tubbs Manufacturing Company Building'', ''Haskell Manufacturing Company building'', ''Haskell Company building'', ''Haskell plant'', ''Haskell factory'',and the ''Haskelite Building.''<ref name = "nom"/> The nineteenth century three-story brick configuration is sometimes referred to by newspapers as just the ''Rowe Street building.''<ref name=aims/> | |||
| ==References== | |||
| {{Reflist}} | |||
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| ==Sources== | |||
| *{{cite book|last=John|first=H. F.|title=Veneers and Plywood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8r_kAAAAMAAJ |year=1930 |publisher=S.H. Smith. |page= |OCLC=1680860}} | |||
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