Chicago Summer Resort
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Chicago Club
1881. From the intersection of Prospect St. and E. Dixon Ave. northeast to Cherry St. and southeast to Round Lake
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(Photograph by Kathryn Bishop Eckert)
Members of the First Congregational Church of Chicago established the Chicago Summer Resort, the present-day Chicago Club, on the north side of the Pine River Channel overlooking Lake Charlevoix. A stock company was incorporated in June 1881. Shares sold at $100 each. To accommodate the stockholders and their families, a large Stick Style clubhouse containing twenty-seven bedrooms, sitting rooms, and a large dining room was built immediately in the center of the newly cleared grounds. Although it has lost its landmark belvedere, the building still displays its broad two-story wraparound veranda and stick ornamentation. Large summer homes were built on the forty-acre terraced and wooded site around the hotel. Roads through the grounds are private, but a drive to the end of E. Dixon Avenue affords a good view of some of the summer homes in the Chicago Club.
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Location: Charlevoix, MichiganRegional Overviews:Types:Styles:Materials:
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1881
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Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Chicago Club", [Charlevoix, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-CX4.
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Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 418-418.
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