1938 Bethesda and Thomas Memorial Hospital Pamphlet, 43 (Mid-West Country Club)
- Identifier
- DBB-ITM-01209
- Source
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Bethesda Hospital and Edyth K. Thomas Memorial Hospital (Detroit, 1938), Digital Collections Resource ID: bh022180, Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library. Page: 43.
- Date
- 1938
- Source Type
- Profile
- Activity
- hotel
- Principal
- Mid-West Lake & Country Club
- Location
- Highway US 12 Route 2 (Grass Lake)
- Transcriber Comment
- Location here described as "The Little Pleasant Lake, which is situated on U.S. Route 12, approximately sixty miles from the City of Detroit"
- Illustration Description
- Includes a portrait photograph of business manager Mr. Lyman Burris
- Transcript
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Business Manager
Mr. Lyman Burris
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Visit
MID-WEST COUNTRY CLUB
Besides the modern, well equipped hospital described on the proceeding pages, Dr. Alf E. Thomas is also sole owner of one of the most beautiful lake resorts in this country. This resort nationally known as the Mid-West Country Club, comprising a total acreage of one hundred and twenty acres. It half surrounds one of the most beautiful and picturesque lakes in Michigan. The Little Pleasant Lake, which is situated on U.S. Route 12, approximately sixty miles from the City of Detroit.
Dr. Thomas maintains a modern and spacious hotel with forty private rooms, besides a beautiful club house with facilities for dining, dancing and gaming. Both of these buildings are of the most modern construction and overlook the lake. One can sit on the wide sweeping verandas and gaze at some of the most beautiful vistas that nature has to offer.
The resort is open to the public and is maintained at popular prices. Therefore many people frequent it and it has been the scene of many delightful parties and week-ends.
Dr. Thomas has built for himself on this estate one of the loveliest country homes in the country. He has cultivated one of the most bountiful truck gardens and an orchard of more than a thousand various fruit trees. The fruits of these trees are given away each year to the needy families and charity organizations each fall.
This property is under the personal supervision of Mr. Ernest Fisher who is the general property manager for Dr. Thomas. - Title
- 1938 Bethesda and Thomas Memorial Hospital Pamphlet, 43 (Mid-West Country Club)
