BYGONE ERA
I have photographed this building occasionally over the last 25 years from all angles. It is a classic wooden commercial building with a false front, probably over 100 years old, that has seen only intermittent use over the time that I’ve known it. It may have been a rooming house upstairs, with a bar and restaurant below, or it may have been a retail store. Sadly, it hasn't seen love in generations, but is an exquisite memory of an earlier time, and is weathered to the color palette of an Andrew Wyeth painting.
This village in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was once a mining town, and briefly gained fame when some scenes from Anatomy of a Murder, starring Jimmy Stewart, was filmed here in the 1950s.
LOCATION: Michigamme, Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA
LIMITED EDITION: This photographic print is part of a limited edition produced by photographer Lee Rentz. The edition consists of 250 prints, which includes all sizes and methods of printing.