Historic photo from the Roy Drier Collection at the MTU Archives & Copper Country Historical Collections, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan.

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     The Scott Hotel, designed by Eric Anderson in 1906, was a monument to Hancock's growing prosperity, and housed the artists performing at the adjacent Kerredge Theater (destroyed by fire in 1959). A.J. Scott, a leading businessman and Hancock's first mayor, financed the hotel. Once considered among the best hotels in the state, it was the only hotel in the Upper Peninsula with passenger and freight elevators. The 96 hotel rooms and 49 baths were arranged in three rows. The inside rooms opened onto a 6' x 41' air and light court covered with a dome.
     The foundation and first-floor walls are sandstone and the upper floors are pressed brick, separated by sandstone belt courses. The sandstone quoining and metal modillion- and dentil-trimmed cornice are noteworthy. The foliate stamped-metal frieze just below the cornice hints of the quality of this Renaissance Revival design.
     During the 1913 copper strike, union leader Charles Moyer, a Scott Hotel guest, refused to allow the local community to assist financially the victims of the Calumet Italian Hall fire. Vigilantes entered Moyer's room, shot him, then dragged him to Houghton where he was put aboard the Milwaukeebound train.