The Old Hancock Central High School (now the Finlandia University College of Health Sciences) is a former public school building located at 417 Quincy Street in Hancock, Michigan, United States.
[1] Copper was discovered in the Keweenaw Peninsula in the 1840s, leading to the opening of the Quincy Mine in 1856.
The Hancock School Board began making plans to construct a new building, but the local depression due to low copper prices caused voters to reject a proposed tax.
The Board purchased lots behind the old school and hired architect G. L. (George Lionell) Lockhart of St. Paul, Minnesota to design the school and local contractor Archie J. Verville to build it.
Families left the city, but the lack of jobs kept students in school, and enrollment remained high.
The building itself is a three-story, symmetrical, flat-roof red brick Collegiate Gothic structure, composed of a central block flanked by setback wings on a high raised basement.
The entrance is flanked with brick buttresses and topped by a parapet containing a plaque reading "A.D.