The new urban cottage
Traverse, Northern Michigan's Magazine|April 2020
WHAT TO DO WITH A VACANT LOT ON HARBOR SPRINGS’ WATERFRONT? THE COTTAGE COMPANY ANSWERS THE QUESTION WITH A MODERN INTERPRETATION OF COTTAGE THAT BLENDS BEAUTIFULLY WITH ITS GRACIOUS OLD NEIGHBORHOOD.
ELIZABETH EDWARDS
The new urban cottage
The white clapboard cottage, with its exposed rafter tails and wide porches that beg for lazy days, nestles perfectly into its neighborhood of early 19th-century Victorian cottages on Bay Street in downtown Harbor Springs. Only the handsome black-framed windows and doors are a hint that something fresh and new is going on here. A renovation perhaps?

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