This Rustic Lake Superior Stone House was built between
1925-1934 during the depression by out-of-work lumberjacks.
The project was funded by John Borbott, who owned the
Knotty Club in Christmas, MI. Borbott hired masons ( brothers ) from Dollarville
to build the house. Stones were hauled then by horses from  the Autrain Beach on Lake Superior, the stonework
taking over four years to finish.



After the house was built, the property became a productive Apple farm, housing the men and horses.
Borbott's family never used the house and was eventually abandoned in the years that followed.
During the seventies after years of vacancy, squatters and abuse, the roof caved in, and the house was nearly destroyed when  Michael Nolan of Marquette bought it. He and his family did a partial restore, but eventually returned to Marquette. Jeff and I took up where Mike had left off,  gutted the home once again, finishing the restoration in 2004.


           

Seamless Steel Roof  and gutters using "Vermont Slate" style shingles.
Attached outbulding now serves as snow free entrance and wood stocks.
This will be the last tear out project to make room for a wrap around porch.

                                                                                             

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