Headframe
The mine's surviving A and B head frames are unusual and probably unique among such structures in the United States, both as the product of a collaboration between the engineers who usually designed them and a professional architect and for their Egyptian Revival design, which was the work of George W. Maher. They were built in 1919 to replace the earlier wooden frames and remained in use until 1955 when the first Koepe Hoist built in the Western Hemisphere replaced them. They remain, however, important landmarks not only for Ishpeming but for the United States iron industry.
Ref. A Case Study in the History of American Iron Mining, 1844-1967
William H. Mulligan, Jr.
Department of History
Murray State University.
Correction.
Re. the Koepe winder. It was invented in Germany in 1877 by Frederick Koepe, the first British example being installed at Bestwood Colliery, Nottinghamshire, in the 1880s and also installed at a few more collieries up to the 1930s.
Courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, HAER, Reproduction no, HAER MICH,52-ISH,1-1
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