| Lieblein House | |
| Location: | 525 Quincy St., Hancock, Michigan |
| Coordinates: | 47.1269°N -88.5886°W |
| Built: | 1895 |
| Architecture: | Queen Anne |
| Added: | April 03, 1980 |
| Refnum: | 80001860 |
| Designated Other1 Name: | Michigan State Historic Site |
| Designated Other1 Abbr: | MSHS |
| Designated Other1 Link: | Michigan State Historic Preservation Office |
| Designated Other1 Date: | June 15, 1979 |
| Designated Other1 Num Position: | bottom |
| Designated Other1 Color: | CornflowerBlue |
The Lieblein House is a single-family house located at 525 Quincy Street in Hancock, Michigan. It has been converted to an office building and is also known as the Hoover Center.[1] The structure was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The Lieblein House was built in 1895 by William Washburn, who owned a local Hancock clothing store.[2] In about 1905, Washburn sold the house to Edward Lieblein, a wholesale grocer who owned stores in Hancock and Calumet.[2] The house remained in the Lieblein family until 1979, when Edward Lieblein Jr.[2] sold it to Suomi College (now Finlandia University).[1] The college renamed it the "Vaino & Judith Hoover Center" after the patrons Vaino and Judith Hoover who funded the purchase.[1] As of 2009, the building houses the offices of the President, Institutional Advancement, Alumni Relations, and Communications.[1]
The Lieblein House is a rectangular, two-and-a-half-story Queen Anne style house, sitting on a sandstone foundation and covered with rectangular and fishscale shingles.[2] It has an enclosed wrap-around porch with Doric columns and narrow one-over-one windows.[2] The narrow windows are also used in a three-story polygonal turret topped with a galvanized metal roof and spire.[2] The porch and turret gives the facade both horizontal and vertical lines.[2] A bay window and multiple multi-paned and double-hung windows light the interior. The roof is gabled on three sides, with leaded glass Palladian windows in the side gables.[2]