The simple, one-story, wood-frame, hipped-roof Craftsman summer chapel is at Shorewood. The resort community was planned by John Alvord in 1902 in a naturalistic manner to follow the hills and dunes for vacationers from Oak Park, Illinois, and Lawrence, Kansas.
Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "Lake Shore Chapel", [Douglas, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-AE9.
Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 272-272.
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