Building notes
![Bill Kemperman fax, April 2, 1997: 1-29-66 Saugatuck. - Many new and permanent improvements have been added to this place during the past season. Two new stores built —one by T. S. Coates, Esq., 24 x 60. Coates building is occupied by Messrs Johnson and Stockbridge; and the other is to be occupied by Dunning, Hopkins & Co., for Dry-Goods, Groceries, &c. A new feed store has been opened by Adolphus R. Mann, formerly of Manlius; also a new boot and shoe store by R. N. [B.] Newnham, formerly of the navy, besides a large number of dwellings in various parts of the village, which gives credence to the belief that ere many years are passed, Saugatuck will have recovered from her lethargy, and rank in commercial importance second to no town in the county.
Money has been raised and a site selected for a large and commodious school house, to be built the coming season which shall reflect to the credit of the place. Rumor has it that a new church is to be built the coming season in place of the miserable building now occupied by the friends of the Congregational denomination. This is probably a premature move. Horace D. Moore is busily engaged in building a store on the site of the one consumed by fire on the 8th inst. ........The shipyards are doing a good business - Captain Coates new vessel is about to receive the plank. She will be a model craft, which, with the modest Captain, will rank her second to no vessel for fright or passengers, plying between this port and Chicago.
The Lodge of Good Templars so much talked of in this place is non est, owing to the want of proper
men to set it in motion, which is to be regretted. —Allegan Journal, January 29, 1866 [Transcribed by Bill Kemperman]
The document continues with Mr. Kemperman's thoughts about conflicting press reports about the Singapore Bank Building and the "Big House" boarding house at Singapore.](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/4124/ee768da0-c893-11f0-b997-1d990ae9ddfe-v3t6jVG.lg@2x.jpg)
Bill Kemperman fax, April 2, 1997
1-29-66 Saugatuck. - Many new and permanent improvements have been added to this place during the past season. Two new stores built —one by T. S. Coates, Esq., 24 x 60. Coates building is occupied by Messrs Johnson and Stockbridge; and the other is to be occupied by Dunning, Hopkins & Co., for Dry-Goods, Groceries, &c. A new feed store has been opened by Adolphus R. Mann, formerly of Manlius; also a new boot and shoe store by R. N. [B.] Newnham, formerly of the navy, besides a large number of dwellings in various parts of the village, which gives credence to the belief that ere many years are passed, Saugatuck will have recovered from her lethargy, and rank in commercial importance second to no town in the county. Money has been raised and a site selected for a large and commodious school house, to be built the coming season which shall reflect to the credit of the place. Rumor has it that a new church is to be built the coming season in place of the miserable building now occupied by the friends of the Congregational denomination. This is probably a premature move. Horace D. Moore is busily engaged in building a store on the site of the one consumed by fire on the 8th inst. ........The shipyards are doing a good business - Captain Coates new vessel is about to receive the plank. She will be a model craft, which, with the modest Captain, will rank her second to no vessel for fright or passengers, plying between this port and Chicago. The Lodge of Good Templars so much talked of in this place is non est, owing to the want of proper men to set it in motion, which is to be regretted. —Allegan Journal, January 29, 1866 [Transcribed by Bill Kemperman] The document continues with Mr. Kemperman's thoughts about conflicting press reports about the Singapore Bank Building and the "Big House" boarding house at Singapore.
![Buildings on National and State Register of Historic Places
Saugatuck Village Hall
Clipson Brewery Ice House (Twin Gables Inn)
All Saints Episcopal Church
Horace D. Moore House (Park House)
Shriver's Inn (at Ox-Bow)
Warner P. Sutton House
Frederick Thompson House (Kemah)
Douglas Village Hall - Dutcher Lodge
Asa Goodrich House
Sarah M. Kirby House
Douglas Union School (now History Center)
Hacklander Site
Reed's Livery & Stage Coast Station (now Toulouse Restaurant)
Not on registry: The Pump House
The Fifteen Oldest Houses
1. Jimmie Haile's Tavern and Stage Coach Stop, 1840
2. The Wade Cottage, 249 Washington, Douglas (1851)
3. Timothy Coates House, 521 Butler Street, Saugatuck (1852)
4. The Orchard House, Pier Cove (1855)
5. Morrison-Ames House, Main Street, Saugatuck (185?)
6. Mill Worker's House, 34 Wall Street, Douglas (1855)
7. Mill Worker's House, 26 Wall Street, Douglas (1853)
8. Mill Worker's House, - Wall Street, Douglas (1855)
9. Fursman - Fawcett House, 246 Mary Street, Saugatuck (1855. new façade,
1927)
10. The Octagon House, -- Mixer Street, Douglas (1859)
11. The Park House, 888 Holland Street, Saugatuck (1857)
12. The Parsonage, Pier Cove (1860-61)
13. Jonas Crouse House, (ca. 1860)11 Freemont, Douglas
14. T. F. Kleeman Residence and Tavern (ca. 1860). 321 Water Street, Saugatuck
15. Marsh Store, 50 Center Street, Douglas (ca. 1862)
Old Singapore Houses
1. Van Leeuwen - Randolph House, 996 Holland, Saugatuck (transported from Singapore in 1868) recently restored.
2. Utton House, North Street (at Holland Street), Saugatuck (transported to Saugatuck in about 1898) [demolished, 2011]
3. Jenkins - Mulder House, --- Lucy Street, Saugatuck (transported to Saugatuck in 1868)
Greek Revival Buildings
Enjoying great popularity from 1840 to 1865, Greek Revival is the dominant architectural style in the areas during the period prior to the Civil War. Here the word
"Greek" derives from the fact that the gable to the front, with its wide cornice trim](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/4124/395ee300-c928-11f0-b997-1d990ae9ddfe-v3t6jVG.lg@2x.jpg)