THE POINT
Fifty-two acres of beautiful
Harbor Point was organized in 1878 by a group of Lansing men who had camped on it, bought the fifty-two-acre point outright and laid it out with no streets and no public ground.
Thirty cottages stood by 1883 and about eighty by 1899. It shelters the deepest natural harbor on the Great Lakes, and the lighthouse still stands at the end of it.
The building stock is Stick Style and shingle, much of it altered by Earl Mead around 1900 — steep roofs, wide overhangs, clapboard, classical detail. It wants repair in kind, not replacement in something easier.
We work to the association's rules and the association's calendar, and we are here in the off-season when the work actually happens.