Earl Young Homes Walking Tour
The "half house" is the smallest of Earl Young's houses. (Photo courtesy of Mike Barton)
This tour will focus on the Earl Young Park Avenue houses. Tours begin at the Charlevoix Historical Society museum at Harsha House. The guide will then take you to the Charlevoix Public Library, which was once a former grade school, now one of the most beautiful public libraries in Northern Michigan. The tour continues to the Earl Young “mushroom houses” along Park Avenue and Clinton Street, and concludes at Hoffmann Park on downtown Park Avenue for a view of Charlevoix’s channel bridge and beyond the channel to Earl Young’s masterpiece, the Weathervane Inn restaurant.
These houses are private residences. Tours do not include the interiors. The tour takes approximately 90 minutes, allowing plenty of time for house description, photographs, and questions, there is no rush involved. Total walking distance is less than 1.25 miles, with minimal elevation change.
Refunds are unavailable for cancellations within 48 hours of the tour.
North Central Michigan College • 1515 Howard Street, Petoskey, MI 49770
