The Douglass House is a hotel located at the corner of Shelden Avenue and Isle Royale Street in Houghton, Michigan.
[1] The original Douglass House was a three-story frame structure built in 1860 on the corner of Isle Royale and Montezuma Streets, with a garden stretching to Shelden.
[3] In 1899, a group of Houghton-area investors, headed by John C. Mann, incorporated the Douglass House Company and purchased the hotel.
[3] By that time, the original frame structure was showing its age,[3] so the Company settled on the idea of constructing an addition that would be appropriate for Houghton's new-found prominence.
The front facade features towers at the corners, which are not included in Ottenheimer's original architectural plans.