John and Lida Lyons Atkinson Cottage
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“Donnybrook” (John and Lida Lyons Atkinson Cottage)
1885, Alfred G. Couchois, builder. 6712 Huron Rd.
This asymmetrical Shingle Style cottage was built for John Atkinson (b. 1841), a Detroit lawyer, and his wife, Lida Lyons. At the southwest corner of the house a large octagonal tower with an open upper level beneath a conical roof rises above an open octagonal porch. This marvelous breezy lookout was particularly appropriate for lake or seaside cottages. The house is clad in shingles.
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Kathryn Bishop Eckert, "“Donnybrook” (John and Lida Lyons Atkinson Cottage)", [Mackinac Island, Michigan], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MI-01-MK16.
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Buildings of Michigan, Kathryn Bishop Eckert. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 568-569.
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