Copper Country Historic District - Calumet
Calumet · 98 5th St, Calumet, MI 49913
At a glance
Type
Historic District / National Park
Setting
Interior + Exterior
Parking
Yes
Power
Yes
Prior Filming
Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001), various Upper Peninsula productions
Permit
Required
Visual character
“Copper Mining, Finnish-American, Victorian”
About
Calumet is the administrative center of Keweenaw National Historical Park—a vast industrial archaeological landscape in Michigan's Upper Peninsula where the world's first large-scale copper mining industry built an extraordinary collection of Romanesque Revival civic buildings, company housing, and industrial infrastructure between 1850 and 1920. The Michigan Film Office promotes Calumet for its unique architectural coherence: a company town designed with civic ambition, where the Calumet Theatre (still operating), the Red Jacket Fire Station, and miles of original stone row housing create a period environment of exceptional completeness. The surrounding Lake Superior shoreline, deep winter snowpack, and remote peninsula geography give productions a genuinely isolating atmosphere unavailable in southern Michigan.
Where you'll be
Permit Information
✓ VerifiedPromoted by Michigan Film Office. Keweenaw National Historical Park, preserved copper era architecture.
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