The Manor on Glen Lake will hold a pre-renovation sale on the porch on Friday, Aug. 30, and Saturday, Aug. 31, from 9 am-3 pm. Come meet Susan Rife, the new owner of the Manor, and learn the latest on her renovation plans for the historic property. Rife has scoured the 118-year-old Manor for vintage books, including children’s books, artwork and other treasures available for purchase on Labor Day weekend.
Chicagoans Robert and Sue Rife plan to revive the historic Manor on Glen Lake, whose restaurant overlooking Little Glen Lake closed after Sue’s sister Nancy Wright passed away in 2020. Nancy had managed the fine dining establishment since 2004. The Rifes aspire to revive the kitchen space, renovate three cottages in the back of the property, and eventually restore the inn’s upstairs, whose rooms they will rent out. Caitlin Olmsted-Phillips, a descendant of D.H. Day and an adaptive reuse planner and preservationist in Ann Arbor, is helping guide this project.
Nancy Wright, the cheerful and optimistic owner of the Manor on Glen Lake was diagnosed with brain cancer in May, 2019, and doctors told her she had only 1-2 months to live. Wright was treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and missed all of last summer in Leelanau County.
Ronald Leroy Bialy returned in mid-April to Glen Arbor to be new head chef at the Manor on Glen Lake, 32 years after he worked at Le Bear restaurant (which is now Le Bear Resort). This spring the Manor has new floors, new amenities, and an enhanced American bistro-style menu that focuses on ribs, steaks, specialty potatoes, salads and homemade dressings.
From staff reports The next Empire Area Community Emergency Fund Concert will be held next Sunday, May 31, from 4-6 p.m. at The Manor on Glen Lake. Featured performers are “The Older Than Dirt Boys Band” featuring Adair Correll, Patrick Niemisto, John Kumjian, Kurt Westie and Norm Wheeler who have come together for this event […]