What's happening: The Laurium Manor Inn placed third in Newsweek.com’s
prestigious Best Historical B&B contest. This marks a significant achievement for the historic inn and also for Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula copper story. The 10 historical B&Bs were selected by Newsweek's expert panelists and contributors and voted on by readers as the best of the best.
About the inn: With its with distinctive white tile porch and exotic elephant hide walls, the Laurium Manor Inn stood out among some of the most esteemed historical inns across the country. That includes Ludington’s Cartier
Mansion, which took first. The 13,000-square-foot mansion has 11 guest rooms with private bathrooms. Dave and Julie Sprenger, graduates of Michigan Technological University, purchased the mansion in 1989. They have since restored other historic homes in the area. Tours of the mansion are offered daily through the fourth weekend in October.
What Newsweek wrote: “When mining magnate Thomas Hoatson Jr. built Laurium Manor for his wife, Cornelia, in 1908, the four-story residence stood as the largest, most splendid on Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. The 45-room mansion became a bread and breakfast in 1989, retaining many of its unique features, such as the silver-leaf domed parlor ceiling, elephant leather wall coverings and hand-carved oak triple staircase. It joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”
Other inns: The
Laurium Manor Inn competed against other inns from across the country, including those in Colorado, Pennsylvania and Kentucky. The Laurium Manor Inn is located in Laurium on the Keweenaw Peninsula.
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