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Bay View Hotel




1880 - Rector & Thomas ?

Was formed as the Bayview Club house Association in 1885. Was formed by five families. Sold to Edward B. Porter

An early flyer states that Mrs. Harry Pfalzaraf, was the manager of the hotel


In the 20 March 1896 Culver Herald is found:
Keifer & Whitcomb, the wide-awake gentlemen that conducted the Bay View Hotel last season, has leased the Lakeview Hotel and will conduct the same this year.

1896, John L. Booth was manager. One account list that it had 44 rooms.

David. Burns stated that the Bay View Hotel in Maxinkuckee had 100 guests and 44 rooms

It was a popular place during the 1880's and closed in 1898 suddenly the 9 Sep. 1898 issue of the Culver Herald proclaimed the sudden closing of the Bay View. It was converted into three separate cottages in 1898.

May of 1899 Edwin B. Parker contracted with Albert Bogardus to tear down part of the old Bay View house, and from the new part construct two cottages.
1908 E. B. Porters/Parker Subdivision - there are six lots
1922 E. B. Porters/Parker Subdivision - there are six lots
1920 - Perkins, Susan

It is said that the hotel sat on what today is the Perry property.

The 19 May 1920 issue of the Culver Herald documents that the Bay View Hotel caught fire which started near the chimey, it was put out by buckets and the fire was controled only after it had burnt a hole in the roof.

Samuel Perkins stated this about the property: The Perkins family of Indianapolis became summer residents on East Shore of lake in 1920 when Susan E. H. Perkins purchased Bayview Place.
In a biography of Samuel E. Perkins IV's 4th great grandfather Judge Samuel E. Perkins is found the family history that which pertaines to his parents and him is as follows:

.....Judge Samuel Perkins....married Amanda J. Pyle...Ten children were born to them

The oldest son, Samuel E. Perkins II was born at Richmond September 2, 1846. The year following his birth his parents moved to Indianpolis in order that is father might attend to his duties as Supreme Judge. In the capital city he spent his hoyhood and youth, finishing his schooling in Northwestern Christain University, now Butler College. Under his father he guided his mind in its first acquisition of legal knowledge, and subsequently was a student in the law school founded by Judge Perkins and Hon. Joseph E. McDonald. He and his father, during the few years when the latter was not on the bench, where actively associated in in practice, but upon the death of Judge Perkins his son sought no further opportunities to build up his clientage and found his time well taken up by managing the various property interests he had acquired. He was more widely known as a cousellor than as a court practitioner. He had a thorough knowledge of the law and was wise in its application. Perhaps his chief characteristics were his industry and his love of home. He was universally respected for his upright life and for the general good he did in the community. He had a well rounded and useful life, though he did not attain the age of three score and ten. He died April 8, 1915 [age 68].

On July 11, 1877, he married Susan Elizabeth Hatch. She is still living in Indianapolis, and her marked literary talents have brought her much esteem in literary circles. She is the mother of two sons, Samuel E. and Volney. The latter died in 1900, while a student at Prudue University.

Samuel E. Perkins III, whose secure position in the Indianapolis bar serves to connect the present with the older generation distinguished by hi sgrandfather, was born at Indianapolis May 8, 1878. After attending private and grade schools in Indianapolis he entered Wabash College, from which he graduated Batchelor of Arts in 1900. The Indiana Law School gave him his L.L.B. degree in 1902, and since that year he has been steadily winning the honors of his choosen profession.

On September 11, 1901, he married Mary F. Milford at Crawfordsville. They had two children, a daughter Susan L., fifteen years of age, and the son aged ten bears the name Samuel E. IV and represents the fourth generation of his honored name and family in Indiana.

Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood Chicago: American Historical Society, 1919, pg. 1240- In 1921 it is said four apartments was built from the Bay View Hotel.

Samuel Perkins stated this about the property also: that his mother had a 2 frame story cottage built by Roscoe Stevens and in 1960 it was replaced by a Cape Cod cottage. In 1960 she split the property between her children: Samuel Elliot Jr. and Susan (Mrs. Frank Setzler) and they both built separate homes on the property. [another gives the date as 1950]

This is a cropped section from the 1927 proposed change for State Road 117. It clearly shores all the Bay View Club Plat which was also E. B. Porter's Subdivision.


Jim Moss states that the Bay View property took in 920 - 950 - 964 East Shore Drive.

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