Most people are familiar with the S.S. Badger car ferry that traverses Lake Michigan from Ludington to Wisconsin. few know that she has a twin sister the S.S. Spartan that is tied up in Ludington near where the Badger loads and unloads vehicles in Ludington. It was built in 1950 along with its sister ship.
The Eaton County Courthouse Square is a rare Michigan example of an intact nineteenth-century government complex. The showplace of the square, the stately Renaissance Revival courthouse built in 1883-85, was designed by D.W. Gibbs & Company of Toledo, Ohio. The interior features several marbleized slate fireplaces, stained glass and native butternut trim. A cast zinc
Oil tycoon Harry Boyd Earhart and his wife Carrie built this mansion near Ann Arbor. The house was completed in 1936 and featured Pewabic tile created for the Earharts by Marry Chase Perry Stratton. The Lutheran Church ~ Missouri Synod purchased 234 acres of the Harry and Carrie Earhart estate in 1961 to construct the campus of Concordia
The Muskegon Woman’s Club was founded in 1890, and dedicated to the intellectual “improvement and development” of women. The Chicago firm of Weir and Perry designed this neo classical structure, built in 1902 with funds donated by Minnie Smith, the widow of Muskegon attorney Francis Smith. The club lobbied the city to hire the first
I like traveling down roads that run next to a river, and while I was traveling along next to the Pine River in southern Midland county I came across what looks like an old service station. When I checked on Google maps, it had the name of Porter at that location which is the name
Michigan has a road where you can defy gravity and your car will roll uphill. Known as “Gravity Hills” they are hills where gravity seems to work in reverse. Near the town of Rose City, there is a road where you can stop and put your car in neutral, and you will swear you are
I had already taken pics of the oldest church in Michigan (Ste Anne De Detroit, you can see my pic HERE) on a previous trip to Detroit and did not plan on taking more but when I was in the neighborhood I saw the twin steeples of the church looking out over the trees and
I see many old churches, especially in a town where the population has declined, for sale or abandoned by their congregation. It is nice to see one repurposed and saved from the wrecking ball like this church that now serves as the Elk Rapids History Museum. The historical marker in front of it reads: In
This post is a little different than what I normally post. Dianna Higgs Stampfler was kind enough to send me a copy of her book Michigan’s Haunted Lighthouses. It tells the story of several great lakes Lighthouses and whose spirit might possibly be haunting them to this day. I liked that it explored the history
I saw this old building north of Bessemer in da U.P. It looks like it may have been a schoolhouse at one time but I don’t know. I come across many old buildings especially in the Upper Peninsula that I wonder about. Subscribe to Lost In Michigan [fbcomments]
