Calumet Theater

Calumet Theater is a Michigan historical marker in Calumet, Houghton County, dedicated 1973.

340 Sixth St., Calumet

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One of the first municipal theaters in America, the Calumet opened on March 20, 1900, “the greatest social event ever known in copperdom’s metropolis.” The theater contained a magnificent stage and elegant interior decorations, including an electrified copper chandelier. For over a decade, Copper Country audiences witnessed the broad panorama of American legitimate theater, and many prominent stage personalities, both American and European, trod the boards of the Calumet. By the 1920s, motion pictures replaced live theater, and, subsequently, live drama returned to the Calumet. The reopened community theater resumed its position as a focal point of civic pride for the people of Calumet and the Copper Country.

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Historical maps covering this location

1852 · Wisconsin (Cowperthwait, 1852) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1855 · Colton's Wisconsin (1855) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1900 · Map of Michigan / The Matthews-Northrup Co. (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)
1903 · Michigan, Northern Peninsula. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1903 · 102. Consumption Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Michigan, Northern Peninsula, 1903, covering the location of Calumet Theater, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Michigan, Northern Peninsula, 1903, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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On the National Register nearby

Calumet Fire Station50 ft
Calumet Downtown Historic District130 ft
Calumet Theatre320 ft

Places within about 300 feet of this marker that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A nearby listing is not always the marker's own subject.