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Originally Posted by KarmaGirl
I know Sunbeam Lodge very well, having lived next to it from 1944 till we sold our house and boathouse. The original house has been torn down and a huge white house stands where my house used to be. The log boat house is still there and a log house has been built in back of it.
Your Sunbeam Lodge was owned by the Coty family.. They were from Manchester, NH and owned Sunbeam bread. The property was as you described..large house and 3 cabins. They sold to the Clark family. The cabin you are living in is not part of Veasey,s......Veasey was our caretaker and lived on the right hand side of the road about a mile in from the highway. He had cabins for rent just past his house down on the lake but not as far as the Cody house.
Do you know the story of your Sunbeam cabin? It used to be on Beaver Island and was brought across the ice one winter. Ben Ames Williams wrote " Leave her to Heaven" in your cabin!
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You may have known David Del Prete who owned that house sometime around 1990 and he sold it around 1994. It was torn down by George Serrano who built the white house you refer to. Later he split the lot and built a new house behind the old boathouse. I saved and am using an old pine door from the house as a family room table.
I think this whole area was owned by Aldrich and Pritzer. Frank ...... owned the last old house and cabins and when he died his children sold of the house and it was torn down.I heard about the Ben Wiiliams Ames story but would like more Information on him and his writings. I am attaching a picture of the last cabin That I saved from destruction. I would like to have any more information you have or feel free to visit. Maybe other forum members have information on this property.