Stagecoach Stop

Location: Culver Street, Saugatuck
Date: 1904

Reed’s Stagecoach Stop, Livery & Feed Store

Roger Reed was the last of the stage coach line operators—and built this new ’station’ just at the time the automobile was making horse drawn stage transport a thing of the past. The building was modern for its time (made of new-fangled concrete block that looked like stone and was fireproof) and replaced an infamous hotel-tavern that was formerly on the site. By 1914 Mr. Reed had moved into auto repair. The site is now on the Michigan Register of Historic Places and holds shops and the Noble Twist Taphouse.