Woodlea Cottage
None of the hundred-year-old cottages in this tiny vacation community on Lake Michigan in Ludington have an address; instead,
they have names. When the owners of a quaint cottage called Woodlea discovered that the house would have to be knocked down,
they were crushed—even more so because it had been the family retreat where the husband had played throughout his own childhood
summers.
Determined to keep the spirit of the old Woodlea alive, they had a local architect draw up plans before sharing them with
their sister-in-law, designer Dana Small. "They really did try to re-create the cottage as best they could," she says. They
worked within the previous home's footprint to erect a two-story residence with a wide front porch that is almost an exact
replica of what was there before, save for the placement of a couple of windows and its new dark blue exterior hue.
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