Schindler Block
Calumet, Michigan
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Schindler Block
Built in 1895 by Anna Catharina Schindler after her husband’s death.
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“This is what I can remember of the building at 423-425 5th St., Calumet, Mich. As told by my Aunt Emma Schindler and my Father John Carl Schindler.
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Both Gottfried Schindler and Anna Catharina (Fisher) came from Germany to Calumet in 1867 and first lived on 3rd St.
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In Calumet. Gottfried was a shoemaker. He died 25 Jan 1882. I think after that date, his wife Anna Catherina had building on 5th St. built. She and the four children lived in one part up stairs. When her son Fredrick got married to Barbara Haug then they occupied the other part up stairs. The lower two parts of the building was a Beer Garden and a Singer sewing machine shop. The only Schindlers that stayed there were Anna Catherina and her Son Gottlieb, the other 3 moved down to Detroit with Kate, the Daughter, when she married.
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In the old days they used a kitchen chair to go through (B.T.W. I still have one chair, very small). I still remember the building.
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My Father and Mother got to go up in the upper floor in the 1970-80's while visiting the UP, said how small it was... 4 small rooms. Back behind the Shop was a Dray Stables where Horse was kept. Bar must have used the entire other bottom of building. My Father often told of he and his little friends going in one door and out the other of the bar when they were young.
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B.T.W. I still have the little Chair and one table Fork. Family used an upper window to go out street when winter snow blocked the (front of the) buildings.
— Jeanie Schindler via Lynette Sharland
Schindler Block
Calumet, Michigan
.
Schindler Block
Built in 1895 by Anna Catharina Schindler after her husband’s death.
.
“This is what I can remember of the building at 423-425 5th St., Calumet, Mich. As told by my Aunt Emma Schindler and my Father John Carl Schindler.
.
Both Gottfried Schindler and Anna Catharina (Fisher) came from Germany to Calumet in 1867 and first lived on 3rd St.
.
In Calumet. Gottfried was a shoemaker. He died 25 Jan 1882. I think after that date, his wife Anna Catherina had building on 5th St. built. She and the four children lived in one part up stairs. When her son Fredrick got married to Barbara Haug then they occupied the other part up stairs. The lower two parts of the building was a Beer Garden and a Singer sewing machine shop. The only Schindlers that stayed there were Anna Catherina and her Son Gottlieb, the other 3 moved down to Detroit with Kate, the Daughter, when she married.
.
In the old days they used a kitchen chair to go through (B.T.W. I still have one chair, very small). I still remember the building.
.
My Father and Mother got to go up in the upper floor in the 1970-80's while visiting the UP, said how small it was... 4 small rooms. Back behind the Shop was a Dray Stables where Horse was kept. Bar must have used the entire other bottom of building. My Father often told of he and his little friends going in one door and out the other of the bar when they were young.
.
B.T.W. I still have the little Chair and one table Fork. Family used an upper window to go out street when winter snow blocked the (front of the) buildings.
— Jeanie Schindler via Lynette Sharland