345 Grand/John Baptiste Martel HouseMartel, John Baptiste c1894-1909

2018.13

Carls, Ken

Donation

1999

Signed Name: Vicky Stull Signature Location: Lower right corner

ArchitectureSaugatuckCouncil Oak

16 in

19 in

Excellent

From “Keeping an Eye on History” at the OSH 2018 John Baptiste Martel House Vicky Stull photograph, 1999 the story | Martel was a French Canadian ship builder who lived in The Hill district of Saugatuck for over a half a century, building steamboats on The Flats at the riverside. The fancy window frame and porch post scrollwork was executed by George Hames and William Finley, both ship carpenters. The house was later purchased by a Chicago industrialist and the interior “restored” by Saugatuck and Chicago interior designer Florence “Danny” Hunn in the 1940s 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 2018.13.26

Photos of this home at the time of Florence Hunns restoration are in box 19