Originally the home was owned by Robert Bankes, general manager of the Ludington Mining Company.

Emma Keen moved to Iron Mountain in 1891 to become the principal of the Ludington School. When she arrived by train, she was met by Mr. J.H. McLean, a school board member, who took her to the Flaherty house, which by then had become a boarding house where she and a number of teachers were to be lodged.

One photograph, dated 1894 by Keen, who later became Mrs. Solomon S. Scott, shows teachers on the porch of the Flaherty house who were identified as Minnie Daub, Keen, Bird Scolland, Minnie McDonald and Anna Campbell Irish.

When James MacNaughton became superintendent of the Chapin Mining Company in 1898, the house was sold to Thomas Penglase and moved to 401 E. A St. in Iron Mountain.

A view of the Thomas Flaherty boarding house, also probably taken by Iron Mountain photographer George S. Van Stone in 1894, shows a group of ladies, who are mostly likely the same teachers, seated in a hammock and under shade trees in the side yard. (Photo provided by the Menominee Range Historical Museum of Iron Mountain)

Penglase was a miner at the Chapin Mine and later served as a mechanic. He and his wife, Sophia, and their two daughters, Ella M. and Jennie P. Penglase, lived in the house and in later years the two daughters, who were teachers in Iron Mountain, opened the Iron Mountain Business College in their home.

The home still stands on the east side of Iron Mountain.

MacNaughton’s new residence, today the Chippewa Club, was constructed for him on the site and later occupied by the Otto C. Davidson family.

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“Remember when?” appears every Wednesday in The Daily News. Those with suggestions or historical photographs they would like to submit can email Terri Castelaz at tcastelaz@ironmountaindailynews.com.