Forgotten Cottages or Homes of North Shore  

• 1850-1876 - I. N. Morris [Isaac N. Morris]
  • 1880 - Lake View Club - 15A
  
  
  
  
  • 1898 - T.H. & I RR Lake View Club Hotel
  
  
  
  • 1908 Lake View Club Hotel - There was camping facilities as well as individual cottages which could be the lots indicated on the 1908 plat map.
  
  
  
  
  • Lot 9
  • Lot 8
  • Lot 7
  • Lot 6
  • Lot 5
  • Lot 4
  • Lot 3
  • Lot 2
  • Lot 1
  • Then in 1922 is depicted the area of 1908 above directly behind these and the hotels as the Lakeview Club Grounds
  • Lot 29
  • Lot 28
  • Lot 27
  • Lot 26
  • Lot 25
  • Lot 24
  • 1929 - Burned
  • Culver Military Academy
  • Left undeveloped - The Indian Trails area
  
  This is the Lake View Club or Lake View Hotel area today:
  
  
  
  • Jungle Hotel or Kinderhook
  
  
  
  • Culver Military Academy
  • Razed and left Undeveloped
  • Culver Motel Inn
  • E. Morris [Edmund Morris /Morris Boat House]
  • Edmund Morris Lakefront
  • 1922 - The Ed Morris Lake Front Plat/Edmund Morris Lakefront - no owners listed:
  • Lot 1
  • Lot 2 - building on it
  • Lot 3 - building on it
  • Lot 4
  • Lot 5
  
  Below is the Edmund Morris Lake front as it is today:
  
  
  
• Morris Lakefront These sections were broke up in this manner [Lots 14,13,12,11,10,9,8,7,6,5 Palmer House, 4,2,3,1; were listed in various ways on the 1898, 1908 and 1922 plat maps all here on this page]:
• not stated/easement?
• M. W. ?Simmons?
• ?_. . _oust?
• ?_. _. Albretcht? [William H. Albrecht]
• A. Herz [Adolph Hertz]
• 1875/6 - Built by J. W. Palmer of Plymouth.
• 1898 - May - Palmer House - F. D. Lamson, who also operated the Ross Hotel in Plymouth



• 1910 - Palmer House


• 1929 - Palmer House




• Maxinkuckee Inn



• Culver Inn





• 1989/1990 Razed for the Huffington Library
N. Schurman [Schuerman/SCHEUREMAN]
• O/R. D. Bohlan [Oscar D. Bohlen]
• 1898 - W. F/E. Kuhn [William F. Kuhn]
• not stated/easement?
• T. Conzeleman "The Roost" [Theolpilus Conzelman]


• 1903 - in the oct. 8^th issue of the Culver Citizen is found: T. Conzelman of St. Louis has old his cottage "The Roost" to. G. B. Taylor.



• George H. Taylor
• H. H. Culver
• Could this be the house moved to 301 North Shore Lane?

This is the Morris Lake front today:



• late 1920's - early 1930's - Culver Military Academy

1876 J. Wylie?

• 1880 Aaron T. Bennedict 44.75; 58.35; & north of these both is 80A
• Henry H. Culver
• Culver Park Assemly
• Agricultral Fair
• Culver Military Academy
• 1898 - Culver Military Academy - 15.92A/18.92A
• H. H. Culver - 76.49A to the North
• H. H. Culver - 38.10A to the North
• H. H. Culver - 39.25A to the East
• 1908 - Culver Miltary Academy
• 1922 - Culver Military Academy - it appears to read 92.80A

• E. Morris
• Palmer Hotel - Built in 1875 by J. W. Palmer of Plymouth.
• Name there not readable

The above 1908 Shows the following:

• T.H. & I RR Lake View Club
• Morris Lakefront
• Palmer Hotel - Built in 1875 by J. W. Palmer of Plymouth.
• Culver Military Academy

The above map cropped form the 1924 Sanborn Fire Maps shows 7 dwellings, 2 with out buildings, the Palmer House; and another dwelling to the east [probably the home Edwin R. Culver built].

below is a mid-1920's map and it still shows the Lake View Hotel and 2 cottages, The Jungle & its cottages, a cottage/house in front of it and there were still 6 cottages on the northern shore existing to the Palmer House and then 2 more.


The lots are not defined in this map, below:


The above map cropped form the 1937 Sanborn Fire Maps shows 2 dewellings; the Club [North Lodge]; and the Maxinkuckee Inn. Tho not shown in this map the dwelling to the east of the inn was still in existence [probably the home Edwin R. Culver built] as it was not razed until 1989/1990 to make wake for the Huffington Library. The lots are not defined in this map.

Somewhere around the Maxinkuckee Inn the A. R. Underwood cottage was located that is pictured below.


This is an aerial view of the north lake front soon after all the acquistions of the north shore.


Below is the entire general area of the forgotten cottages. It also depicts the "Bogardus Farm" or "Bogardus Subdivision" which is in relation to the western edge of the academy Campus.