W. K. Kellogg House
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N 42° 24.350 W 085° 24.115
16T E 631506 N 4696073
Located on the west side of Gull Lake Drive E, between B Avenue E and Midland Park. Parking is available.
Waymark Code: WM1EM4
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 04/21/2007
Views: 62
W. K. Kellogg (1860-1951) founded the Toasted Corn Flake Company of Battle Creek in 1906. In 1925, Kellogg and his second wife, Dr. Carrie Staines, a physician at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, commissioned Benjamin and Benjamin of Grand Rapids to design a summer house here. Their picturesque estate included this Neo-Tudor manor house, a windmill, a greenhouse, a stable, a boathouse, a combined guest house, garage and chauffeur's residence and a caretaker's house. Marshall Field and Company of Chicago decorated the interior. From 1944 to 1950 the estate served as a rehabilitation center for the Percy Jones Army Hospital in Battle Creek. In 1952 the W. K. Kellogg Foundation gave the property to Michigan State College (now Michigan State University), which developed it as the Kellogg Gull Lake Biological Station.
Historical Name: W. K. Kellogg, Dr. Carrie Staines
Parking nearby?: yes
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website: [Web Link]
Registered Site #: State Site #0605
Historical Date: Not listed
Description: Not listed
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