Tourists' Home
Photograph
Photographic exhibit #5 from legal complaint filed on June 20, 1967 in Allegan County by plaintiffs Walter and Elizabeth Coburn, [proprietors of the Ship 'N Shore Hotel/Motel/Boatel] vs. defendant Kalamazoo Ferry Company [Peterson] about the trimming of vegetation and installation of pilings by the eastern Chain Ferry landing.
Yellow Plaintiff's Exhibit sticker on back of photo is dated 3-26-68.
This is a reprint of a historic photo of Saugatuck's riverfront. It does not show Saugatuck in the mid-'60s.
Tourists' Home was a lodging establishment north of the east-side chain ferry landing in Saugatuck, corner of Mary and Water Streets. Tourists' Home was assembled from a Singapore warehouse, a blacksmith shop and parts of the Basket Factory. Changed it's name to the more-unique "Mt. Baldhead Hotel" in 1933.
Tourists' Home is the cluster of large, dark building with white window frames on the river's edge at the bottom of the image. Note name painted on various sides of the structure. The Chain Ferry landing is visible upriver. Also visible are the Saugatuck High School and (perhaps?) First Congregational Church on the hill. Photos was taken from Mt. Baldhead.
2021.103.10
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First Congregational Church SaugatuckMt. Baldhead Hotel 1933-1959/Tourists' Home 1901Saugatuck Public School 1897-1950Chain Ferry LandingsMount Baldhead Dune/Park
Kalamazoo River
Mount Baldhead, Views from
Winthers, Sally
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Chain Ferry Landings
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