Flint House

2018.13

Carls, Ken

Donation

1999

PhotographySaugatuckArchitecture

16 in

19 in

Excellent

From “Keeping an Eye on History” at the OSH 2018 Flint House (1860s) Vicky Stull photograph, 1999 the story | Built in the then-fashionable Italianate architectural style with a typical Italianate door, it was the home of Catherine and Noah Flint. Mrs. Flint was raised by the nearby Gerber family. Of their three boys, one became a ship engineer, killed in an accident in Chicago; a second, a sailor, was lost overboard in a storm on Lake Michigan; and the third son became the successful operator of Flint’s Store on Butler Street in Saugatuck, now an ice cream shop. the photograph | This is one of the photographs taken for the Saugatuck-Douglas Museum “Raising the Roof” 1999 exhibition and featured in the accompanying publication, Raising the Roof: The Architecture and Buildings of the Saugatuck-Douglas Area, (original ed., 1999, second ed., 2006) the photographer | Vicky Stull lived and worked in the Saugatuck area in the 1990s and served as the chief photographer for the Saugatuck-Douglas History Center’s “Raising the Roof” exhibition in 1999. She was represented by Water Street Gallery. Currently she lives and operates VBS Photography, LLC in the Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida area. SDHC Collection, gift of Kenneth R. Carls and James A. Schmiechen Accession number 2018.13.25