photograph
Catalog Number
2021.14.348
Date of Origin
ca. 1895
Description
Black and white photograph showing the Ottawa Beach Hotel form a birds-eye view.
History
Ottawa Beach is the name given to the area along the north side of the channel and northwest section of Lake Macatawa in Park Township. It received its name in 1886 with the construction of the Hotel Ottawa, built on a hillside near the beach. 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, 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.
