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Update 12/3/2024 from Scott Szeliga:
Hello,
I wanted to provide some information about Fallet's Cottage Court. It is still located at 300-to-318 West Houghton Lake Drive (M-55) (shown as M-18 on google maps street view for 2024), Prudenville, MI.
The main house address (the cottage owner's house) is shown as 308 #11 on google maps satellite view. There were (may still be) two cottages connected to the east side of the main house. Google maps have the main house address as 308 but the connected cottages are numbered 359 and named "Bear Den Cottages". So, these two units may not have been sold off as condos.
By the late 1960's the cottage court was owned by Mr. McGregor (MacGregor), not sure which spelling is correct. It was named Mc(Mac)Gregor's Cottage Court at that time.
In the early 1970's (around 1973 or so, Harry Stewart and his wife Pat bought the cottage court and renamed it "Stewart's Cottage Court & Motel". Harry and Pat and their family ran the cottage court for about 10 years. Harry also was a local sheriff during this time period.
By the late 1970's, Harry and Pat were building Stewart's Foodland grocery store in Gladwin, MI and by the early 1980's they had sold the cottage court which then became "Denton Creek Lakefront Resort". Denton Creek (which feeds Lake James in Prudenville) is directly next to the west side of the cottage court property.
By the mid-to-late 1990's, the cottages were sold off individually as condominiums (now called East Bay Condominiums). Most of these units have since had a second story added to them. There may be one or two units that are still single story.
Across the street (W. Houghton Lake Dr. (M-55/M-18) from the main house there is a Marathon gas station (303 W. Houghton Lake Drive) that in the late 60's and 70's was a very small one-owner gas station.
Just to the east of the gas station was a great little fishing and sports store (family owned) call "Chief Sporting Goods". Still have my fishing tackle box I purchased there around 1976.
To the west of the gas station there was a family owner restaurant called "Lakeview Restaurant" that my dad and I would have breakfast at before going fishing at sun-up.
My family used to vacation (rent a cottage) for a week each summer from the late 1960's throughout the 1970's and once in the early 1990's there. My parents became friends with Harry and Pat Stewart back then. With the cottage rental, you also got use of a 16" steel rowboat. My dad had an old Sea King 5 horsepower engine he'd take with us, and we'd spend a lot of time fishing.
Great memories of a by-gone era ! Thanks for the great web-site, and photo of the cottages ??.
The only info I found on this place was one ad from an Ohio newspaper from 1959 and the postcard. I will assume it was on Old US-27 but that could be wrong. These cabins had kitchens with refrigerators which was pretty good for the time. The owners even provided boats.