photograph
Catalog Number
1969.10.13Description
Black and white photograph showing the Macatawa interurban loop near a dock. The top of the Ottawa Beach Hotel is visible in the background.History
The Ottawa Beach Hotel (originally known as the Hotel Ottawa) was built by the West Michigan Park Association (a group organized in Grand Rapids in 1885) in the summer of 1886 on the north side of the channel, in Park Township, on a bluff. Across the channel, on the south side, was the rival Macatawa Park Hotel.The Ottawa Beach Hotel burned to the ground on November 6, 1923.