76. Saugatuck Village Hall

Left: The Butler street side of the hall prior to its Colonial Revival facelift in 1926. / Right: the hall as it looks today, minus the clock.

The Saugatuck Village Hall began in 1880 as the village firehouse with meeting rooms on the second floor. Architect Carl Hoerman’s 1926 building revamp was part of a village-wide clean-up campaign that resulted in a new Colonial Revival architectural face for the village. The renovated Village Hall with its side pilasters, elegant recessed portico and arched windows announced the new “quaint village” message of the 1920s and 1930s. The upper floor was the village’s first art exhibition gallery and today it is the village council room. Alterations to the structure proposed by the Village Council in 1988 were rejected in the face of strong community opposition to change. The Saugatuck Village Hall is located at 102 Butler Street.