Mackinac Island Cottages

One week ago today, we visited this gorgeous spot.
It's taken me a while to get the photos loaded and edited to share with you.
Remember that you can click on any photo to enlarge.
I have more from the island to show you, but today we'll concentrate on some of the architecture of these beautiful homes on this historic island.
Pictured above is
the harbor at Mackinac Island, MI
this island is in Lake Huron and is on
the register of National Historic Landmarks.
More than 80% of the island is a State Park.

The portico of the Governor's mansion, owned by the state, here for the use of the sitting governor. It's a big, beautiful home on a very nice lot with a view of Lake Huron and the Mackinac Bridge.

A nice little perk for the governor to entertain friends and family and perhaps use for business occasionally.

The back view of the grounds of the Governor's mansion.

Enjoy wandering through town, and let's look at some of the homes and gardens along the way...

A Mackinac Island "garage"...there is a ban on almost all motor vehicles (except for emergency vehicles and such) and the island is just under 4 square miles. Therefore, bikes and horses and carriages are the main modes of transportation here, only adding to the charm (but the romanticism of the horses and carriages quickly fades when you catch a whiff of the odor of the horse manure on main street mixed with the smell of fresh fudge: it can be quite nauseating at times until the clean-up man comes by!).

I wanted you to see some of the beauty and charm and detail of these cottages on the island, there are only a few pictured here...I could have taken hundreds of pictures but had to watch where I was walking, or be trampled or run down by a biker!

What a color combination! I love it!

Have you seen the movie "Somewhere in Time"? It's an old classic romantic time travel movie, (1980) and stars Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. Part of the movie was filmed here on the island, and the movie story line takes place on the island in the old Grand Hotel. If you're able to get it from Netflix, you'd enjoy it, I think.

I remember going to see "Somewhere in Time" with my husband before we got married...it wasn't exclusively a "chick flick" because he even enjoyed it! We honeymooned nearby after the wedding and visited the island.

Most of the cottages with this view also have beachfront access that lies across the road from their homes with this incredible view or one very much like it.

Oooh...la la!

On up the rocky hill...overlooking the water, the cottages just keep going!

A little hot dog stand sits near the water...

A zoom shot of the granddaddy of them all: The Grand Hotel!