Gwinn Model Town
N 46° 16.731 W 087° 26.303
16T E 466225 N 5125123
Gwinn Model Town
Waymark Code: WMVHBE
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 04/20/2017
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William Gwinn Mather, president of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, oversaw development of Gwinn in 1906. He was inspired by benevolence, a need to attract dependable workers, and the desire to avoid labor strife. Mathers hired Boston landscape designer Warren H. Manning to plan Gwinn as a company town that provided housing and community services for residents. Manning included boulevards, plantings and extensive green space in his design, tenets of City Beautiful and Garden City movements, which were town planning trends of the day. Gwinn became a model for other company towns in the region. The mines closed in 1946 and company owned properties were sold. Mathers and Manning's "Model Town" of Gwinn is still listed in the National Register of Historic Places
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William Gwinn Mather, president of the Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, oversaw development of Gwinn in 1906. He was inspired by benevolence, a need to attract dependable workers, and the desire to avoid labor strife. Mathers hired Boston landscape designer Warren H. Manning to plan Gwinn as a company town that provided housing and community services for residents. Manning included boulevards, plantings and extensive green space in his design, tenets of City Beautiful and Garden City movements, which were town planning trends of the day. Gwinn became a model for other company towns in the region. The mines closed in 1946 and company owned properties were sold. Mathers and Manning's "Model Town" of Gwinn is still listed in the National Register of Historic Places
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Registered Site #: 710
Historical Date: Not listed
Historical Name: Not listed
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