East Hancock

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East Hancock is a primarily residential neighbourhood in Hancock, Michigan, though it also includes the easternmost block of Quincy Street, the main street of Hancock's downtown.[1]

[edit] History

It was formerly characterised by a number of deep ravines[2] originally covered with wooden sidewalks[3]that were filled in by the Dakota Heights Land Company; the neighbourhood was then "subdivided into residential lots". A prinicpal feature is a WPA-project stone staircase "[descending] from "Cooper Avenue to Front Street".[4]

Formerly East Hancock was important as the station from which the trolley departed to the Electric Park resort.[5]

On June 23, 1980, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places as the East Hancock Neighborhood Historical District. In 1981 "the East Hancock Neighborhood Association" was formed.[6] It is noted for many large houses in the Queen Anne, Renaissance and shingle style[1].

The construction of the Canal Crossings Condominium by Moyle Inc. has obstructed some of the view of the neighbourhood from the Portage Lake Lift Bridge, one of the things for which the project has been criticised.[2]

[edit] Sources

  • East Hancock Revisited: History of a Neighborhood, Circa 1880 - 1920 (Eleanor A. Alexander, Hancock, Michigan: 1984)
  • Charles Wallace: Maps

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Alexander, Eleanor A. (1984). East Hancock Revisted: History of a Neighborhood Circa 1880-1920, 7. 
  2. ^ Eckert, Katerine Bishop (Reprint Edition 1995). Buildings of Michigan (Society of Architectural Historians). Oxford University Press, USA, 470. ISBN 0195093798. 
  3. ^ Alexander, Eleanor A. (1984). East Hancock Revisted: History of a Neighborhood Circa 1880-1920, 4. 
  4. ^ Eckert, Katerine Bishop (Reprint Edition 1995). Buildings of Michigan (Society of Architectural Historians). Oxford University Press, USA, 470. ISBN 0195093798. 
  5. ^ Alexander, Eleanor A. (1984). East Hancock Revisted: History of a Neighborhood Circa 1880-1920, 4. 
  6. ^ Alexander, Eleanor A. (1984). East Hancock Revisted: Story of a Neighborhood Circa 1880-1920. 


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