Editing Charlevoix, Michigan (section)

===Interwar era (1919–1945)===
Northern Michigan continued to be a resort destination after World War I.

Beginning in 1918 real estate agent, regional promoter, and self-taught architect [[Earl Young (architect)|Earl Young]] began to design and build his signature "mushroom houses" and other buildings out of locally harvested boulders.

In 1925, members of the [[Charlevoix Summer Resort Association]] decided their existing social club needed a golf course. The members called on Scotsman [[William Watson (golfer)|William Watson]], who was working across town as head pro of the Chicago Club. Watson's resume included working on such layouts like [[Interlachen Country Club]] in Minneapolis, [[Harding Park Golf Club]], and the [[Olympic Club]] in San Francisco. At Belvedere he used five teams of horses and 150 men to build 18 holes through a pair of valleys dissected by Marion Center Rd. just south of town. Opened in 1927, the course soon became a respected tournament venue.

In 1918, Albert Loeb, an executive from the Sears corporation in Chicago, built an experimental farm on the southern outskirts of Charlevoix. Known as Loeb Farms, the farm raised prizewinning cattle sold through the Sears Catalog. In its heyday it was the primary employer in Charlevoix County.<ref name = "CastleFarms">{{cite web|url=http://www.castlefarms.com/about-us/history/|title=History of Castle Farms in Charlevoix, Michigan &#124; Castle Farms History|publisher=castlefarms.com|access-date=2014-12-06}}</ref> Loeb's son became involved in an infamous murder trial (the [[Leopold and Loeb]] trial). During the trial, Scopes trial lawyer [[Clarence Darrow]] arrived at the Charlevoix train station to visit the Loeb family at [[Loeb Farms]]. Albert Loeb died in 1924 and the farm closed in 1927 after a three-year agricultural recession.<ref name = "CastleFarms" />

In 1926.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Klink|first1=Angie|title=Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women who Introduced Science Into the Home|date=2011|publisher=Purdue University Press|location=West Lafayette, IN|isbn=978-1-55753-591-7|page=115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wmd9V3NdQ7MC&q=%22pine%20lake%22%20%20renamed%20%22Lake%20Charlevoix%22%201926&pg=PA115|quote="Pine Lake, renamed Lake Charlevoix in 1926"}}</ref> Pine Lake was renamed Lake Charlevoix.

Between 1927 and 1948, former Michigan football player [[Lewis Reimann]] founded Camp Charlevoix as a [[recreational camp]] for [[at-risk youth|at-risk]] boys.<ref>{{cite news|title=Camp Charlevoix alumnus reunite|newspaper=Charlevoix Courier News|date=August 19, 2009}}</ref> first in [[Ironton, Michigan]] and then in 1928 at a permanent 170-acre site on the shores of [[Lake Charlevoix]].<ref name=CC/> Reimann operated Camp Charlevoix for more than 20 years.<ref name=UPHOF>{{cite web|title=Biography of Inductees |publisher=Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame |url=http://upshf.com/inductees/index.php?inparm=year&inkey=max&ac=&pageNo=2&perPage=5&pageLinks=10 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717173141/http://upshf.com/inductees/index.php?inparm=year&inkey=max&ac=&pageNo=2&perPage=5&pageLinks=10 |archive-date=July 17, 2011 }}</ref> After an expansion in 1937, Reimann sold Camp Charlevoix in 1948.<ref name=CC>{{Cite book|author=Lewis C. Reimann|title=The History of Camp Charlevoix|url=http://www.campcharlevoix.com/index.php?n=19&col=subject&cri=Reimann%20history|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708112755/http://www.campcharlevoix.com/index.php?n=19&col=subject&cri=Reimann%20history|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-07-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Kenneth W. Smith and Jim Land|title=THE HISTORY OF CAMP CHARLEVOIX: The Character Camp For Boys|publisher=Camp Charlevoix|url=http://www.campcharlevoix.com/index.php?n=21|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708113021/http://www.campcharlevoix.com/index.php?n=21|archive-date=July 8, 2011|df=mdy-all}}</ref> Camp Charlevoix continued operations under Kenneth W. Smith until at least 1960.<ref>{{cite news|title=Camp Charlevoix -- "A Character Camp for Boys" at Charlevoix Michigan|url=http://digitize.gp.lib.mi.us/digitize/newspapers/gpnews/1960-64/60/1960-02-11.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161223132256/http://digitize.gp.lib.mi.us/digitize/newspapers/gpnews/1960-64/60/1960-02-11.pdf |archive-date=2016-12-23 |url-status=live|access-date=22 December 2016|agency=Grosse Pointe News|volume=21|issue=6|publisher=Anteebo Publishers|date=February 11, 1960|location=Grosse Point, MI|page=12|format=weekly (thursday)|quote="Kenneth W. Smith Director-Owner"}}</ref>

During Prohibition, Charlevoix became a popular place for gang members from the Chicago area. The Colonial Club, a restaurant and gambling joint on the city's north side became known as a popular place for the Midwest's most powerful and influential. John Koch, the club's owner, kept automobile license number "2", only second to the governor – a telling sign of his influence. The converted lumber barge ''Keuka'' served as a [[blind pig]] and [[speakeasy]] and sailed nightly between [[Boyne City]] and Charlevoix, hosting its guests in relative comfort. A murder aboard the ship and the pressure of [[US Treasury Department]] surveillance, however, forced the owner to [[Scuttling|scuttle]] the vessel in [[Lake Charlevoix]].

In 1930, the first Charlevoix Venetian Festival started as a candle-lit boat parade. (It has continued to be held annually and grown in length and in the types of entertainment offered.)<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brougham|first1=Rachel|title=Venetian Festival history|url=http://articles.petoskeynews.com/2010-07-16/ferry-beach_24152098|access-date=2 June 2016|agency=Petoskey News|date=July 16, 2010|quote=" It began as a simple candle-lit boat parade in 1930. Today, Charlevoix's Venetian Festival is the city's highlight of the busy summer season"|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811140404/http://articles.petoskeynews.com/2010-07-16/ferry-beach_24152098|archive-date=August 11, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the early 1930s photographer and historian Bob Miles began a 42-year career documenting the city of Charlevoix and surrounding areas.<ref name="chxhistory">{{cite web|url=http://www.chxhistory.com/2010news/2010-05.htm|title=Charlevoix Historical Society - Charlevoix, Michigan|publisher=chxhistory.com|access-date=2014-12-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140717225651/http://www.chxhistory.com/2010news/2010-05.htm|archive-date=July 17, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="charlevoixlibrary">{{cite web|url=http://www.charlevoixlibrary.org/sites/default/files/RogerGowell/Miles/miles-peg.htm|title=sites/default/files/RogerGowell/Miles/miles-peg|publisher=charlevoixlibrary.org|access-date=2014-12-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702004004/http://www.charlevoixlibrary.org/sites/default/files/RogerGowell/Miles/miles-peg.htm|archive-date=July 2, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref name="msu">{{cite web|url=http://archives.msu.edu/findaid/c610.html|title=Robert Miles Collection c.00610|publisher=archives.msu.edu|access-date=2014-12-06}}</ref><ref name="petoskeynews2">{{cite web|url=http://articles.petoskeynews.com/2010-06-30/harsha-house-museum_24542284|title=Historical society to repeat Bob Miles program - Petoskey News|publisher=articles.petoskeynews.com|access-date=2014-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702122724/http://articles.petoskeynews.com/2010-06-30/harsha-house-museum_24542284|archive-date=July 2, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On March 9, 1935, The Petoskey [[Kiwanis Club]] sponsored a charter meeting of the Charlevloix Kiwanis Club. In 1939, the Charlevoix Kiwanis Club created [[Scouting in Michigan#Beginning Years .281910-1950.29|Boy Scout Troop 11]].<ref name="charlevoixkiwanis.org">{{cite web|url=http://charlevoixkiwanis.org/club-history/|title=Kiwanis Club of Charlevoix Michigan Website|publisher=charlevoixkiwanis.org|access-date=2014-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208171429/http://charlevoixkiwanis.org/club-history/|archive-date=December 8, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> Troop 11 is the second oldest Boy Scout troop in Northern Michigan.<ref name="charlevoixkiwanis.org"/>

Several bridges had been built to cross the Pine River. A drawbridge was planned to be built in 1940, but due to Pearl Harbor, the completion of the [[US 31–Island Lake Outlet Bridge|current Charlevoix drawbridge]] bridge was delayed until 1947.<ref name="charlevoixlibrary2">{{cite web|url=http://www.charlevoixlibrary.org/sites/default/files/RogerGowell/Young/young-art06.htm|title=The Weathervane Inn, in foreground on right, was the homely Argo Mill, below, until it came into the grasp of Earl Young's love affair with the beauty of boulders, ever-changing Lake Michigan, the majesty of sea gull flight and other natural wonders of Charlevoix.|publisher=charlevoixlibrary.org|access-date=2014-12-06|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702072934/http://www.charlevoixlibrary.org/sites/default/files/RogerGowell/Young/young-art06.htm|archive-date=July 2, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref>