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308:. In 1958, Jim and Fern Bryant purchased the Stickneys' property and converted the main house to a restaurant they called the "Bowers Harbor Inn." The restaurant opened in 1959. In 1974, Howard A. Schelde and three business partners purchased the restaurant and renovated it. In 1978, they renovated the previously abandoned east portion of the structure to become a separate casual restaurant, "The Bowery." In 2006, the property was purchased by Jon Carlson and Greg Lobdell, who again renovated the property. They added a microbrewery, turned the Bowery restaurant into The Jolly Pumpkin Restaurant, Microbrewery & Distillery, and turned the Bowers Harbor Inn Restaurant into the Mission Table Restaurant & Tasting Room. The building continues to house the two restaurants, one for fine dining and one casual. 51: 943: 65: 90: 954: 97: 72: 324:
The front facade of the house has a central bay with a recessed entrance. The entrance has a heavy wooden door with iron strap hinges, surrounded by glass lights. Above the entrance is a pair of French doors opening onto a small balcony with a wrought iron railing. To the left of the entrance bay
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structure. It consists of the main 1928 house on the west, a "carriage house" on the east (which may have been constructed earlier), and an addition which connects the two separate structures. The main section of the house is approximately 100 feet (30 m) by 25 feet (7.6 m) and faces the
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In 1920, the Stickneys purchased this property, then a typical Old Mission Peninsula farm with a rather large orchard. They continued the farming use of the property and canned preserves from the orchard harvest, offering them for sale. In 1928, the Stickneys hired Jennie Stickney's nephew, Kenneth
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look, with dark stained wood floors and wood trim throughout the restaurant. The front door opens onto an entrance hall with a flagstone floor and a curved staircase with a wrought iron railing. Arched doorways open from there onto two dining rooms. The south one has a polished flagstone floor,
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plaster walls, a wood cross beam ceiling, and a massive stone fireplace with a rustic beam mantel and flagstone hearth. The north dining room has a brick fireplace, wood cross beam ceilings, and a wooden bar. The upstairs contains rooms which were formerly bedrooms.
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The north side of the house has three small first-floor windows and none on the second floor. This section was originally an open porch, but was enclosed in the 1960s. The south side of the house is dominated by a massive
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The rear of the house is relatively featureless, with windows only on the second floor. An gable-roofed addition connects the house with a "carriage house" (now the Bowery Restaurant), which is a two-story
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is a projecting bay holding a two-story porch with a shallow hip roof. To the right is a three-bay wide section with a central three-sided bay window flanked by a single tall window on each side.
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lake. The east section, containing the "carriage house" and the connector addition, extends approximately 80 feet (24 m) to the east, giving the entire building a T shape.
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protrudes from the chimney's center at the second floor level. A concrete terrace runs across the entire front facade of the building and extends to the south side.
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B. Worthen, to design a new summer house for their property. Worthern was at the time a principal of Bentley-Worthen Architects in
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house for the couple. The house was built at a cost of $ 175,000, and the Stickneys dubbed it the We-Gwa-Se-Min Ranch.
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National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Stickney Summer House/Bowers Harbor Inn
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and brick end chimney. A pair of French doors flank the chimney on the first floor, and an
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The Stickney Summer House is a large, two story frame
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is a restaurant located at 13512 Peninsula Drive in
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Bowers Harbor Inn is located in Michigan
Bowers Harbor Inn is located in the United States
Peninsula Township, Michigan
44°53′10″N 85°31′43″W / 44.88611°N 85.52861°W / 44.88611; -85.52861
Arts and Crafts
Storybook
11000178
Peninsula Township, Michigan
Jolly Pumpkin
Bowers Harbor
Grand Traverse Bay
National Register of Historic Places
Groveland, Massachusetts
Chicago
Pere Marquette Railway
Petoskey, Michigan
St. Paul, Minnesota
Arts and Crafts
Storybook style
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Traverse City
Storybook style
fieldstone
oriel window
hip roof
Arts and Crafts

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