Greater West Bloomfield Historical Society
History Matters
Object ID: 1996-007-002
Date: 1888-1907
Collection: Hotels, Pine LakeA photograph of the Interlaken Hotel on Pine Lake. Three cadets from the Michigan Military Academy are seen on the front lawn.
In 1888 the Interlaken Hotel, a three-story summer clubhouse, was founded on Pine Lake’s southern peninsula, as a place where “men of moderate means … could have a pleasant place to take their families in the summer.” Unfortunately, the Interlaken caught fire in 1915.
Object ID: 1980-001-017
Collection: Pine Lake, PostcardPostcard of dock view scene at Pine Lake at around 1900
Object ID: 1980-001-016
Date: 1900
Collection: Pine Lake, PostcardPostcard showing the corner of Pine Lake Road and Orchard Lake Road with Pine Lake Road on the right of the fork (1900)