IMAGINE:

McNally Cottage

The Cottage that SAVED Mackinac Island

is now Re opening for Business

Continueing a tradition begun in 1889 by Michael & Catherine McNally

the longest family tradition on Mackinac Island

History:

Enter back into a world more than a century ago

The late 1800's, the"gilded age", the "Victorian era", the era prior to the transformations of the automobile

A time when people walked or rode bikes or horses or in open carriages, not isolated from each other, with the smells of nature, horses, carriages, people working in the open air, with their hands, in nature and in the open.

this Cottage is now the most authentic experience on Mackinac Island

Fully restored, her 9 guest rooms serving from her over 120 years of service, soldiers, fishermen, lumbermen, ship born passengers traversing the lakes, and continueing this tradition now, you, a tourist transformed back to an era, with no movie set, no "re-creation", but the REAL THING. An island, as near to the past as any to be found on the planet, continueing un-broken, this tradition, of serving visitors to the first popular National Park in America.

Come stay at the REAL THING. The true experience of Mackinac.

Sit on the porch which Michael McNally built just ten years after opening, at a cost with inflation of $500, the same as just 10 years prior in 1889, which he paid for the entire building, a shocking investment at the time, the turn of the century inflation as our Nation came into its full glory of booming tourism and an idealism of public purpose not seen in all of human history.

Watch passenger ferries come & go, watch tourists on bikes and in carriages, pass by at a leasurely pace not to be found anywhere else on Earth.

The beautiful Dining Room converted from the side porch, some of the rooms & guest rooms unchanged from 1889, the beautiful Lilac trees, unique forms not found anywhere else on the Island.

more McNally family oral histories & History found here: www.McNallyCottage.info

Mackinac Island

a place unlike any other

McNally Cottage

a place to stay, totally unique, un-matched in authentic splendor from a by-gone era, but alive and un-broken in its connection to the past.

And all of this in the best possible location of any overnight accomodation on the Island, directly downtown, across from one boat dock, 1/2 block from another, 1 block from the 3rd. Directly across the street from bike rentals, right next to restaurants and incredible amounts of shopping, 1 block from carriage rides, 1/2 block from the taxi, in short, no better location for walking and enjoying all the most unique island in the world has to offer . . .

for guest service inquiries, call (906) 847-xxxx

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