John Lautner, the Marquette-born architect of California’s wildest houses
John Lautner grew up in Marquette, trained under Frank Lloyd Wright and designed some of the most daring homes in Los Angeles.
Marquette Mountain and the business of winter
Marquette Mountain sits just south of the city and gives Marquette something few towns its size have: a downhill ski area 10 minutes from downtown.
The Superior Dome and what a giant wooden roof brings to Marquette
Opened in 1991, the Superior Dome on the NMU campus is one of the largest wooden domes in the world and hosts football, trade shows and graduation.
Blackrocks Brewery and Marquette’s craft beer boom
Blackrocks Brewery started in a converted house on Third Street in 2010 and grew into one of the Upper Peninsula’s best-known beer makers.
Bishop Frederic Baraga, the Snowshoe Priest
Frederic Baraga traveled the Upper Peninsula on foot and snowshoe for decades and became the first bishop of the diocese now based in Marquette.
Northern Michigan University and its weight in the Marquette economy
Northern Michigan University started in 1899 as a teacher training school. Today it is one of Marquette’s biggest employers and fills the city with students.
George Shiras III, the Marquette lawyer who photographed wildlife at night
George Shiras III spent summers near Marquette and invented ways to photograph animals at night, filling an early issue of National Geographic.
The pasty, the miners’ lunch that became a Marquette business
Cornish miners brought the pasty to the Upper Peninsula in the 1800s. Today shops across Marquette County sell thousands of them, and some ship them across the country.
After the Presque Isle Power Plant: how Marquette’s power changed
The coal-fired Presque Isle Power Plant on Marquette’s north side shut down in 2019 after new natural gas plants were built in Negaunee and Baraga.