Tour of Architecture and History

The Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society walking tours.

SAUGATUCK & DOUGLAS SELF-GUIDED TOURS: Brochures are available here at museum.

Early Greek Revival Houses. Timothy Coates House. 521 Butler Street Saugatuck (1852) The Coates house is an excellent example of a typical Greek Revival house in the Saugatuck area. This architectural “style” was the most popular (and most common) building form in Michigan (and America) in the early-to-mid-1800s. Most Michigan Greek Revival houses were of wood, painted white, and with the gable facing the front and with wide “pilaster” boards on the sides to represent classical columns. Coates was one of Saugatuck’s early lighthouse keepers and merchants.