Name/Title
Denison Oxbow Country Club renderingEntry/Object ID
2022.03.08Description
Architect's rendering of the Oxbow Country Club for the Frank Dennison [sic] site on No.110 Crescent illustration board.
On left side of illustration, by the parked cars, is a date "Jul. '79" and "C.J. Chamales"
Rendering includes a parking lot; a low, possibly 2-story flat-roofed building for locker rooms; a dramatic "mod" raised, round structure with 360-degree views for a "club house, reception, dinning rooms, lounge, bar; tennis (not shown); 18 hole golf course; and blocky "condominiums & single family houses interspersed alongside the fairways of the golf course."
A stamp in the lower right corner indicates the creator as Christopher John Chamales, Architect City Planner, 11 South La Salle Street, Chicago 3, Illinois.Context
In the 1970s, Frank Denison was contemplating developing the land that is now preserved as the Saugatuck Harbor Natural Area. The modernistic plan with a rotating building was highly au courant at that time.Acquisition
Accession
2022.03Notes
Item donated by Ken Carls, who recalls "Anyway, the Archers [Norm Archer and his wife who lived on Park St.] were selling up and moving to Florida. I believe it was sometime in the mid- to late ‘80s. They had a pre-moving garage sale and that’s where I bought the drawing, which is actually a print, possibly from a blueprint machine or some form of copier. Who knows where the original might be (Peterson? In Chamales’s paper in Chicago?), probably done by hand in those days. This was shortly after we moved to Saugatuck and years before I was involved with the historical society so little did I know that this “cool” drawing would be of interest to anyone, certainly not that it was a proposal for developing what would become one of the area’s most controversial pieces of waterfront property."Location
Drawer
Flat Files drawer 05 plansCondition
Overall Condition
FairNotes
This illustration had a hard life, including being nailed.Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Saugatuck Harbor Natural Area/South Denison Property/Gay/Nude Beach;Create Date
February 4, 2022Update Date
March 30, 2024
