Building notes
Archive
Folder of documents about area buildings, both residences and commercial, assembled by architectural historian James Schmiechen.
1. Two-page fax from Bill Kemperman gleaning mentions about buildings, builders and business activity from newspapers.
2. "Condensed Notes Kemperman," 11 pages of mentions about buildings gleaned from Charles Lorenz, May Francis Heath, Allegan County History 1834, James Sheridan, Allegan Barry County History and Hutchins.
3. Lists of buildings on historic registers, the 15 oldest houses, old Singapore houses, Greek Revival/Folk Victorian/Italianate/Italianate Commercial/Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Arts and Crafts, Colonial Revival and Unusual style buildings, list of important architects
4. Sketches of Walden Cottage at 3494 Pine Trail Camp Road by James Schmiechen
5. SDHS lecture handout to accompany "A Summer Well Spent / Brings a Year of Content - The Arts and Crafts Era in the Saugatuck Douglas Area, 1899- ca. 1920," 7 pages.
6. Print out of computer file "Douglas Lakeshore Cottages - Early", 8 pages of Commercial Record-gleaned information about Alvoord, Barto, Butts, Carroll Cottage, Cobb Cottage, Clough Cottage "San Eden", Delaney cottage, William A. Douglass or Wm. A. Douglas, Ehrman Cottage, Gibney Cottages, Bicknell Camp, Garesches Cottages, Kendall Cottage, W.A. McDonald, Reider Cottage, Sayer, Simpson Cottage, Tiffeny, Trumble Cottage, Wallin Cottage, White Cottage, Woodcock Cottage - predecessor of Lake Shore Chapel, King Cottage, McKinley Park, Ridgewood Beach, Shorewood, Foreword Movement Park, W.S. Harbert, Englewood Beach, an 1900 census report of boarding houses, Hedgerow Villa and George Kurz's building projects.
7. Two pages of information about Louis Upson lots, John Mead, Albert Nysson and his fruit tree sales, Cappaletti House, Flint - Dan or Noah, Robert Reid Farm, N. Bartlett 1873 - Helen Bartlett later
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This material likely informed Dr. Schmiechen's book about local architecture titled "Raising the Roof."
Buildings: CommercialBuildings: Homes, cottages and private residences1902 Shorewood Association1900 Lakeshore community1897 Forward Movement Park, Gray and Presbyterian Camps -2014Transportation: highway and road infrastructure
Winthers, Sally
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Schmiechen, James A.
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317 Butler/Saugatuck Gallery/Singapore Bank Book Store/Kozy Koffee/Variety Shop/Aliber Grocery/Moore BuildingSchmiechen, James A.Kemperman, William
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