Seeking an up-to-date fashionable appearance for Saugatuck, Maher (1864–1926), a Chicago architect who summered in Saugatuck, created the classical front for this two-story hotel owned by the Wicks family. Prior to 1898, the hotel served as furniture and grocery stores and apartments.
Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Maplewood Hotel", [Saugatuck, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-AE10.
Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 272-272.
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