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The upper story of an eight-sided concrete-block building with a steep pointed roof, white-trimmed shuttered windows on each face, and the roofs of lower wings converging beneath it, a maple in autumn color at the corner.

CommunityIron River, Iron CountyAug 27, 2026

Iron County Fair 2026: The 1931 Exhibition Hall

A long two-storey white clapboard house with a grey shingled roof, a row of shed dormers and a deep veranda carried on seven round white pillars, white rocking chairs along the porch, on a mown lawn under trees in bright sun.

History & CulturePequaming, Baraga CountyAug 25, 2026

Pequaming: The U.P. Town Henry Ford Bought

Four varnished mahogany runabouts, each flying a small American flag, moored side by side at a red-railed dock at the Les Cheneaux Antique Wooden Boat Show, with a crowd in rain jackets along the dock behind them under a grey sky.

CommunityHessel, Mackinac CountyAug 25, 2026

Les Cheneaux Boat Show: Wooden Boats Since 1978

A cream-brick lighthouse with a black lantern rising from the corner of an attached one-and-a-half story keeper's house with green shutters, seen across the river mouth with a small white rowboat on the lawn and a red-roofed oil house at left.

History & CultureOntonagon, Ontonagon CountyAug 24, 2026

The 1896 Ontonagon Fire, 130 Years On

A low bare granite island in calm blue water with a small square stone lighthouse tower and attached house on its summit, a lattice mast beside them, and towering white clouds behind.

History & CultureGranite Island, Marquette CountyAug 24, 2026

Granite Island Lighthouse: Sold for $86,003

A two-story red brick commercial block with green-painted cast-iron storefronts and cornice, "HARRIS BLOCK 1887" lettered on the central pediment, on a small-town main street.

History & CultureLake Linden, Houghton CountyAug 23, 2026

Lake Linden's 1887 Fire and the Brick Downtown It Built

Two large old houses on a leafy Marquette street, a grey-green Queen Anne with a wraparound porch behind and a red sandstone house with a deep front porch in the foreground, big maples over the lawn.

History & CultureMarquette, Marquette CountyAug 23, 2026

The Longyear Mansion: Marquette's House That Left Town

A large white clapboard Federal-style house with a row of dormers, a double front staircase and small flags over the door, a museum sign at the steps, under a clear blue sky.

History & CultureMackinac Island, Mackinac CountyAug 23, 2026

Robert Stuart House: Astor's Fur Post on Mackinac Island

Two long brick barracks with two-story wooden porches face a broad lawn, a company of soldiers standing in formation at the right, large trees in full leaf in the foreground.

History & CultureSault Ste. Marie, Chippewa CountyAug 22, 2026

Fort Brady: The Sault Army Post That Became a College

A large white three-story shingled cottage with a wide covered porch, dormer windows and a fieldstone foundation, framed by dark cedar trees, with a wooden stair leading up from a lawn edged with white flowers.

History & CultureMackinac Island, Mackinac CountyAug 22, 2026

The Governor's Summer Residence on Mackinac Island

A two-story white clapboard courthouse with a red roof and a tall pedimented portico on six white columns, on a mown lawn under a clear blue sky, a smaller white building visible at the right.

History & CultureEagle River, Keweenaw CountyAug 22, 2026

Keweenaw County Courthouse: Eagle River's 1866 Seat

Grey granite ledges streaked with orange lichen drop into clear blue Lake Superior water, and on the wooded clifftop in the distance a small white lighthouse and keeper's house stand above the trees.

History & CultureHuron Islands, Marquette CountyAug 21, 2026

Huron Island Lighthouse: The Wreck That Built It

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