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View east circa 1924 or 1925 showing remains of the Ottawa Beach Hotel at left edge of photo, and the hotel dock in center.
View west along hotel dock, with channel left of center in photo, and the long low bath house on Lake Michigan in the center. This is the dock destroyed by fire in the photo at the left.
In the summer of 1914, Claude Johnson holds his infant son for a snapshot near the west end of the Ottawa Beach Hotel in this photo looking north.
Undated photo of the west end of the Hotel looking east, with the elevated walkway at the left. The view out the windows of the third floor rooms was straight out the channel!
The Johnsons’ son in 1914 in Macatawa with the Association Building to the left and the Interurban station on the right. View
Claude Johnson out on Black Lake in 1914 with the Jenison Park dock to the left and the Ottawa Beach Hotel and Annex to the
The history of Ottawa Beach Page 12M; James Johnson Archive Page
