Joseph Bosch Building

Built in 1893. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Joseph Bosch Building is a commercial structure located at 302 Calumet Avenue in the Lake Linden Historic District in Lake Linden, Michigan. It is also known as the Lindell Chocolate Shoppe.”
Wikipedia article Joseph Bosch Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 41 National Register listings published here for Houghton County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1893.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Bosch, Joseph, Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 302 Calumet Ave., Lake Linden, 49945
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Township. Schoolcraft township
When was it built? 1893
National Register reference number. 82002839 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Joseph Bosch Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
10 September 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	LAKE LINDEN FD 2019019 - 2019
10 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MUD LAKE ROAD SWAMP
7 August 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
21 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	CALUMET VILLAGE FD 0081219 - 2019
26 July 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
24 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	HUBBELL VFD 0724191 - 2019
2 July 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 June 1993	Smoking	1.6 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Houghton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Joseph Bosch Building: 20 past producers, 10 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Nickel, Copper, Nickel. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Centennial No.2	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1863, 1904
Michigan Nickel Deposits	Nickel, Copper	Prospect	Sulfides
Michigan Nickel Deposits	Nickel, Copper	Prospect
Centennial Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1869, 1920
Kearsarge Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	Lode
La Salle Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1910, 1920
Mayflower Old Colony Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer	Lode
Calumet No 2	Copper	Past Producer	1864, 1865
Calumet No.1	Copper	Past Producer	1864, 1865
Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate Lode	Copper	Past Producer	1864, 1865, 1968

Every working recorded in Houghton County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Linden, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 6 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Linden	$2,000	The observer in Lake Linden reported a loss of power with trees fallen on power lines.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Linden	$1,000	Law enforcement dispatch reported a power line down at the intersection of 9th Street and Calumet Street in Lake Linden.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Linden	$1,000	Several trees and power lines downed.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Linden	-	Large limbs were reported down in the Hubbell/Lake Linden area along with minor street flooding.
May 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Linden	-	Three inch diameter tree branches were broken off.
July 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Linden	-	Winds damage with trees down along Post Road.

Every storm recorded in Houghton County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Lake Linden Historic District	under 500 feet	2009
Lake Linden Village Hall and Fire Station	under 500 feet	1981
First Congregational Church	0.2 miles	1980
Laurium Historic District	3.4 miles	2005
Thomas H. Hoatson House	3.4 miles	1994
Vivian, Jr., J., and Company Building	3.5 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002839 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Houghton County	All 41 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.