historic preservation

Preserving the park's history goes beyond old farmhouses and barns — it means preserving old apple varieties, too.

A new marker has been dedicated in honor of the intersection that formed Thompsonville in Benzie County.

The National Park Service is scrapping plans to lease out the historic Sleeping Bear Inn in Glen Haven. The two-story inn was built in 1857 and has not…

This past year, the Traverse City Historical Society received a diary. The diary was donated by a woman from Kalamazoo who bought it at an antique store…

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to own your own lighthouse, there’s one for sale in the Manitou Passage. The federal government is…

Depending on your viewpoint, a pair of bills being proposed by the Michigan House and Senate are either a threat to historic districts in Michigan, or a...

A public meeting last night at Traverse City’s Carnegie Library building drew a crowd of passionate supporters of the town’s history. Many called on the…

When is an old structure worth saving? And when does that structure become something that’s dangerous and needs to be torn down? Those questions are...

Sand dunes immediately surrounded the Lake Michigan Beach House when it was first built back in 1935. These days almost a million visitors trample the…

A new meeting hall opens in Traverse City this week, one that’s nearly 130 years old. The new room at the Village at Grand Traverse Commons was once the…