Wave Crest Lodge card

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Saugatuck Douglas Historical Society

Mrs. Marcotte personally invites you to spend your vacation at Wave Crest on Lake Michigan. Here you can swim, sun bathe on our sandy beach, hike through wooded trails or over sandy dunes, and satisfy that new-found appetite with perfect food prepared by Mom herself. Since we are located just a short distance from Saugatuck, you can also enjoy dancing, golfing, bowling, nightclubs, shuffleboard, ten-nis, boating, fishing and the art colony. Wave Crest Lodge is sincerely waiting to make this year's vacation your most unfor-getable. Cordially, A. MARCOTTE [Arthur Marcotte]

Mrs. Marcotte personally invites you to spend your vacation at Wave Crest on Lake Michigan. Here you can swim, sun bathe on our sandy beach, hike through wooded trails or over sandy dunes, and satisfy that new-found appetite with perfect food prepared by Mom herself. Since we are located just a short distance from Saugatuck, you can also enjoy dancing, golfing, bowling, nightclubs, shuffleboard, ten-nis, boating, fishing and the art colony. Wave Crest Lodge is sincerely waiting to make this year's vacation your most unfor-getable. Cordially, A. MARCOTTE [Arthur Marcotte]

Name/Title

Wave Crest Lodge card

Entry/Object ID

2023.50.92

Scope and Content

Digital image of an advertising card for the Wave Crest Lodge

Context

The large house and cottages that were called Wave Crest have an interesting history. In 1864 the land was part of the Jimmy Haile property. Haile had come to Saugatuck before 1850 and built a large columned house along the lakeshore which was used as a half-way stop between Saugatuck and South Haven. By 1873 Haile's widow, Martha, had sold off a portion of the property and there appears to be a building at about the location of Wave Crest, on the 1873 plat map. By 1913 a small, narrow lot was owned by H. L. Masters, who was the father of the poet Edgar Lee Masters. The son wrote in his autobiography, Across Spoon River: "He ran up a flag on his front yard with the device "Masters Farm" and though he was now sixty-one he was as young as ever and could pitch hay or chop wood with undiminished vigor. He expected to make money out of his eighty bearing cherry trees, and out of his hundreds of peach trees; but he soon found that the market men in Chicago reaped all the profit in them. His reward consisted, mostly, in looking at Lake Michigan which bordered his frontage, and in swimming in its waters, and in loafing at the country store near at hand, where he became friends with the owner and the farmers about." When the postcard, above, was printed, probably in the 1940's, the large house and an increasing number of cottages were owned by the Marcotte family. Mrs. Marcotte was a sister to Louise Hiestand of the Edgewater Inn in Saugatuck, and there was discussion locally about which was the better cook - both were excellent. For a brief period in the 1960's a daughter, Margo Busies, kept the front porch of the main house at Wave Crest open as a Sunday brunch restaurant before purchasing The Old Rail Grill and moving into town. A granddaughter, Spring (Busies) Sweeney now owns the Holland restaurant 'Til Midnight.

Collection

SDHS NL Inserts

Cataloged By

Winthers, Sally

Acquisition

Accession

2023.50

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Notes

SDHS Newsletter insert page 236

Location

* Untyped Location

Digital data in CatalogIt

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Wave Crest Dining Room/Lodge, Sweeney, Spring (Busies), Marcotte, Ethel V. (Whitcomb) 1904-1965, Marcotte, Arthur J. 1902-1959, Bussies, Margo 1930-2011, Haile, James C. "Uncle Jimmy" 1800-1870

General Notes

Note

This information was OCR text scanned from SDHS newsletter supplements. Binders of original paper copies are in the SDHC reference library.

Create Date

January 1, 2024

Update Date

January 1, 2024