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From “Keeping an Eye on History” at the OSH 2018
Flint House (1860s)
Vicky Stull
photograph, 1999
the story | Built in the then-fashionable Italianate architectural style with a typical Italianate door, it was the home of Catherine and Noah Flint. Mrs. Flint was raised by the nearby Gerber family. Of their three boys, one became a ship engineer, killed in an accident in Chicago; a second, a sailor, was lost overboard in a storm on Lake Michigan; and the third son became the successful operator of Flint’s Store on Butler Street in Saugatuck, now an ice cream shop.
the photograph | This is one of the photographs taken for the Saugatuck-Douglas Museum “Raising the Roof” 1999 exhibition and featured in the accompanying publication, Raising the Roof: The Architecture and Buildings of the Saugatuck-Douglas Area, (original ed., 1999, second ed., 2006)
the photographer | Vicky Stull lived and worked in the Saugatuck area in the 1990s and served as the chief photographer for the Saugatuck-Douglas History Center’s “Raising the Roof” exhibition in 1999. She was represented by Water Street Gallery. Currently she lives and operates VBS Photography, LLC in the Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida area.
SDHC Collection, gift of Kenneth R. Carls and James A. Schmiechen
Accession number 2018.13.25