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Perry Hannah House | |
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  Location within Michigan  Location within the United States | |
 Interactive map showing the location for Perry Hannah House | |
| Location | 305 6th St., Traverse City, Michigan |
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| Coordinates | 44°45′40″N 85°37′36″W / 44.76111°N 85.62667°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1891 |
| Architect | William G. Robinson |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| NRHP reference No. | 72000617[1] |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | March 16, 1972 |
| Designated MSHS | October 29, 1971[2] |
The Perry Hannah House, also known as the Reynolds-Jonkhoff Funeral Home, is a house located at 305 6th Street in Traverse City, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971[2] and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]
Perry Hannah was born in 1824 in Erie County, Pennsylvania, the son of E. L. and Ann Hannah.[3] In 1837 the Hannahs moved to St. Clair County, Michigan, and Perry soon was employed in rafting logs from Port Huron to Detroit. He was later employed in a Port Huron store, but in 1846 moved to Chicago to clerk at a lumberyard. In 1850, he formed a partnership with A. Tracy Lay and James Morgan, called Hannah, Lay, and Co. In 1851, the firm purchased land near Traverse City and began logging.
In 1852, Hannah married Ann Amelia Flynn; the couple had three children.[3] In 1854 the Hannahs permanently moved to Traverse City, where Perry Hannah guided Hannah, Lay, and Co. to immense profits, expanding into banking, milling, real estate, and wholesale and retail sales. In 1886, they divested the lumbering portion of the business. By the 1890s, Hannah, Lay, and Co. was worth tens of millions of dollars.
The Perry Hannah House was designed in 1891 by Grand Rapids architect William G. Robinson for Hannah.[2] It was completed in 1893.[4] Hannah used the house as his retirement home, living there until his death in 1904. The house then passed to his daughter-in-law, Elsie Hannah. Years later, unable to afford the upkeep of the house, Elsie Hannah planned to demolish it. However, demolition also proved too costly, and she donated the house to the American Legion. The Legion sold it to the owner of Weaver's Funeral Home, who converted it into a funeral parlor, making almost no alterations to the original house. In 1976, the Reynolds-Jonkhoff Funeral Home began using the home; they still operate it and maintain the house.
The Perry Hannah House occupies a large double lot on the corner of Sixth and Pine streets.[2] It is a three-story asymmetric brick Queen Anne structure clad with clapboard siding and round corner turrets. The house sits on a granite foundation and is capped with a hip roof; a wide veranda nearly encircles the structure. A 2+1⁄2-story carriage house, now used as a garage, sits behind the house.
Inside the house are 40 rooms located on four floors, with a total of 14,000 square feet (1,300 m2).[4] The house contains ten fireplaces, eight with handmade Venetian tiles. The woodwork features many types of wood, including cherry, birch, beech, birds-eye and curly maple, oak, dark oak, walnut, and Brazilian mahogany.
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The Perry Hannah House, also known as the Reynolds-Jonkhoff Funeral Home, is a house located at 305 6th Street in Traverse City, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
The Central Neighborhood Historic District is a residential historic district, roughly bounded by 5th, Union, 9th, and Division Streets in Traverse City, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It includes the separately-listed Perry Hannah House. The district includes 459 structures.
Perry Hannah ( HAN-ə; September 22, 1824 – August 16, 1904) was an American politician, businessman, lumber baron, merchant and banker, who was well involved in the settling and early industrialization of the Grand Traverse Bay region of Michigan. In the 1850s, Hannah and his company, Hannah, Lay & Co., purchased and platted land near the mouth of the Boardman River, which eventually developed into the city of Traverse City. As a politician, Hannah represented Grand Traverse County in the Michigan House of Representatives, and later served as village president and first mayor of Traverse City. Hannah also helped to establish the Traverse City State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital. Today, Hannah is often referred to as the "Father of Traverse City".
Hannah Perry (born 1984) is a British artist known for her work in installation, sculpture, print and video. She blends personal references with popular culture to create videos, sounds, images and objects.
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