Glen Arbor Bed & Breakfast hosts June 1 open house

From staff reports

The public is invited to come see the beautiful workmanship and tour the remodeled Glen Arbor Bed & Breakfast, as well as the new condominiums, on Sunday, June 1, from 1-4 pm. Stop by, drink some lemonade and check it out. Call innkeeper Laura at 231-334-6789 with any questions.

And read our feature story from 2022 about the Bed & Breakfast building, which recently celebrated 150 years in Glen Arbor.

The building originally served as a boarding house for loggers who came to northern Michigan to cut timber to rebuild Chicago after the city’s Great Fire of 1871—the one allegedly caused when Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over a lantern. The heyday of logging in this part of the state ran from 1873 until 1905.

The hotel was later owned by Martha Andresen and was known for many years as the Andresen property. John and Linda Peppler’s mother, Helen Rader Peppler, was born there in 1920. She and William Peppler held their wedding reception at the hotel in December 1941. The space was used for many purposes. Mrs. Andresen turned the living room into a dining room, and she served chicken dinners there on Sundays, which attracted visitors from all over the region. After the Second World War, it became a lunchroom for students enrolled at the Glen Arbor School.

Mike Sutherland bought it from the Andresens in 1991, built the front porch and renamed it the Glen Arbor Bed & Breakfast. Larry and Patricia Widmayer acquired it in 2001 and owned the Bed & Breakfast until they sold it to Michael Aragon in 2023.