Editing Mackinac Island (section)

==Architecture==
[[File:Little Stone Church.jpg|thumb|upright|Little Stone Church on Mackinac Island]]
Most of the buildings on Mackinac Island are built of wood, a few are of stone, and most have [[Clapboard (architecture)|clapboard]] siding.<ref name="HistplacesPDF">{{cite web|title=National Historic Landmark Nomination: Mackinac Island |publisher=United States Department of the Interior |url=http://www.mackinacisland.org/pdfs/nationalhistoriclandmark.pdf |access-date=March 10, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510030816/http://www.mackinacisland.org/pdfs/nationalhistoriclandmark.pdf |archive-date=May 10, 2008 }}</ref> The [[architectural styles]] on the island span 300 years, from the earliest Native American structures to the European-American styles of the 19th century.

The earliest structures were built by the Anishinaabe and Ojibwe (also called [[Chippewa]] in the United States) tribes before European exploration. At least two buildings still exist from the original French settlement of the late 18th century. Mackinac Island has the only example of northern French rustic architecture in the United States, and one of few survivors in North America.

Mackinac Island also contains examples of Federalist, [[American colonial architecture|Colonial]], and [[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]] styles. Given its rise as a tourist destination in the late nineteenth century, many of the island's structures were built in the later style of the [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] era, which includes [[Gothic Revival]], [[Stick style]], [[Italianate]], [[Second Empire (architecture)|Second Empire]], [[Richardson Romanesque]] and [[Queen Anne style architecture in the United States|Queen Anne]] styles. The most recent architectural styles date from the late 19th century to the 1930s and include the [[Colonial revival|Colonial]] and [[Tudor revival]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Slevin |first=Mary McGuire |title=Architecture |publisher=Mackinacisland.org |url=http://www.mackinacisland.org/architecture.html |access-date=March 10, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061211105201/http://www.mackinacisland.org/architecture.html <!--Added by H3llBot--> |archive-date=December 11, 2006}}</ref>