Earl Young

Boulder Manor     Boulder Manor sits on the southern shores of Lake Michigan in Charlevoix.  It’s easily found by following the street leading to the cement factory, an eye sore never missed when looking over beautiful Lake Michigan. Ahead of the grey and depressing monstrosity, there sits one of the loveliest communities in town…

      “THE SUCHER HOUSE” The beautiful Sucher House….located in one of the most fabulous locations of all the Mushroom Houses……. atop a hill overlooking beautiful lake Michigan.  Its also I would have to say, one of the most expensive of all the Mushroom houses simply because of the property, amount of land, and…

“Boulderdash” or the actual “Mushroom House” I cannot tell you how many times I get asked during our 45 min. tour of why on earth all these houses are called “Mushroom Houses?!”  When the tour starts out and for most of the first half, they simply look like fairy-tale houses and Gnome Homes no doubt………

Earl Young Half-House The Half-House is one of the most beloved “Mushroom Houses” and one of the most recognizable.  Its beauty and intrigue has garnered it numerous awards for color placement of the stones, style and structure.  This house to me….represents everything Earl Young was trying to portray in his work and has all the…

  This is the Story of Irene Harsha “Behind every good man is a great woman” so quotes the bible in not so many words.  That couldn’t be more true in the case of Earl Young’s life and career.  Not to say that Earl Young wasn’t an absolute creative genius, but without his better half…….

THATCHED ROOF HOUSE 2017 The Thatched Roof House I will be blogging about each one of Earl Young’s houses separately as each one is so unique and so interesting!  If you need a background on the architect Earl Young…please visit my previous post aptly named “The Evolution of Earl Young.”   The Thatched Roof House…