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John Fox says “The cabanas are on the opposite side of the pier from where they are today.”

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Belvedere Club bayou, probably on a Sunday morning when resorters rowed across Round Lake to get to church.

The weather is getting warmer and soon we’ll all be out sitting on our porches enjoying the day with a nice cold beverage like these ladies and gents.

Belvedere Club “The Morgue,” first called “The Midget,” the first building constructed on the Belvedere resort.

The Belvedere resort is seen from the roof of the Chicago Club clubhouse in winter, circa 1890s.

Belvedere Club brochures from 1907 (bottom), 1908 (left), and 1909 (right). Interior images from 1907. These brochures have a wealth of information such as cottage owners, members, and descriptions of the grounds and Charlevoix. They also contain great advertisements from local businesses.

Rustic Bridge. Belvedere Club

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View of Belvedere resort, before 1886. Taken from the Chicago Club looking south across Old River (below) and Old Island. Part of the upper channel is visible, lined with pilings.

Entrance to Pine Lake many moons ago

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Here is another clip from our small set of 16mm film from 1938. The 192-foot Sylvia enters the channel and docks in Round Lake (You’ll see the old swing bridge at the very end!) The yacht was one of five identical vessels built by the Bath Iron Works Corporation of Bath, Maine in the late 1920s. It was owned by Logan Thompson, head of an Ohio paper company and member of the Belvedere Club. Some of its crewmen included; James Bellinger, Jerry Simpson, Joe Arvilla, Ted Shupeck, Johnny Clausen, and Harold Behnedsen. It is known that Katherine Hepburn and Howard Hughes chartered the Sylvia for various trips, however, we don’t know if they ever came to Charlevoix.