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Ashley had a reputation for thinking big. To preface that, James Mitchell Ashley and his Ann Arbor Railroad Company wanted to build a railroad across Lake Michigan and chose the Frankfort/Elberta harbor as its shore terminus. The tallest building north of Grand Rapids would be built here-a grain elevator-as well as one of the largest and most modern resort hotels on the Great Lakes. Within less than a decade, modern ships and railroads would be bringing throngs of people from afar. Here in Benzie County, the changes wrought by this era generally came slowly and in subtle ways, but dramatic change was about to arrive here, as well. Women would soon be able to vote, and even as the titans of industry were consolidating power and luxury, there was a new, exhilarating upward mobility for the working class. Not only were there technological advances, but the new century came with great social changes, too. It was a period of great vibrancy there were no wars, and the stuffiness of the Victorian era was now fading into the past. The last unexplored place on the planet, the South Pole, was visited for the first time. Travelers could cross the Atlantic Ocean in just days aboard luxurious liners.
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Guglielmo Marconi had invented wireless radio telegraphy.
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The industrial revolution had brought seemingly endless possibilities for society and our built environment. It was a time like no other: the Edwardian era.
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Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel and the 1980 film release of Somewhere in Time come to mind, influencing many Michiganders’ perceptions.
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The lore and romance of the late 19th and early 20th-century resort hotels easily inspire romantic and nostalgic images. A brief, golden age of Frankfort… but not the last
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