The Big Pool

Location: North Street, Saugatuck
Date: 1927

Said to be the second largest swimming pool in the United States, the Big Pool was built by Robert Marriot, a Chicago summer resident of Saugatuck. It had a Spanish style bathhouse and a gigantic water slide. It was expensive to operate and began to lose its clientele when the Village opened its public ’Oval Beach’ in 1936 and closed about 1940.