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Brightwood Beach Cottage is an historic octagonal building on the southern shore of Lake Ripley in Litchfield, Minnesota, United States, that once was a part of the Brightwood Beach Resort of the late nineteenth century. The resort opened in 1889, and it offered cultural amenities such as concerts, classes in fine arts, and other live ...
Jackson Hotel: Jackson Hotel: December 8, 1978 : 214 Jackson St. Anoka: Prominent hotel in operation 1884–1975, a reminder of Anoka's reconstruction following a major 1884 fire and of its role as a trade center. [12] 9: Porter Kelsey House
United States historic place Beverly Shores–Century of Progress Architectural District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district The Florida Tropical House, one of five houses in the district Interactive map of the district and its houses Location 208, 210, 212, 214, and 215 Lake Front Dr., Beverly Shores, Indiana Coordinates 41°41′3″N 87°0′6″W / 41. ...
A resurgence of development took place during the 1990s and 2000s, when many million-dollar-plus houses were built on the dunes near the lakefront. In the early 2000s, excessive levels of arsenic, boron, lead, and manganese were found in wells in the nearby town of Pines , and pipelines delivering Lake Michigan water treated by Michigan City ...
Miller Woods is a western unit of Indiana Dunes National Park in the lakefront community of Miller Beach, Indiana. Miller Woods is home to the federally endangered Karner Blue butterfly and the federally threatened Pitcher's thistle. [1] Miller Woods is also the only part of the National Park that also adjoins the Grand Calumet River.
The city and developers worked with the area's unique architectural character, converting old warehouses along the waterfront into cafés, shops, restaurants, and hotels. Combined with the new rock beach and Lakewalk, these changes developed the new Canal Park as a tourism-oriented district. Duluth's population, which had declined since 1960 ...
Indiana Dunes National Park, which includes large areas in and around Miller Beach, is a place of extremely high biodiversity. [81] The neighborhood's Miller Woods area alone is home to 287 species of plants and animals, [ 39 ] including the federally endangered Karner Blue butterfly and the federally threatened Pitcher's thistle .
Chicago visible across Lake Michigan from West Beach, Indiana Dunes National Park. West Beach, located adjacent to U.S. Route 12 and County Line Road, lies on the border of Gary and Portage, Indiana. It is a geographically separated section of the park that is preserved as a piece of public beach access and an example of the same theme of plant ...