Gambling Den / The Cabin Bar

Location: 252 Butler, Saugatuck
Date: 1860s Replaced, ca. 1895

As part of the early port town rough-and-tumble, hard-hitting life, the old Nichols building was reputedly at one time a house of prostitution and gambling den. The respectable folks of the community welcomed a new “modern” building on the site in 1889: Fritz Walz’s Butcher Shop. Decades later it came to be the home of a lively bar called the Log Cabin.