| Book Review | The Michigan Historical Review, 34.2

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James Schmiechen. Raising the Roof: A History of the Buildings and Architecture in the Saugatuck and Douglas Area. Rev. ed. Douglas, Mich.: Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, 2006. Pp. 178. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Paper, $55.00.
For the revised edition of this handsomely designed and lavishly illustrated survey of the Saugatuck and Douglas area, James Schmiechen has produced a worthy volume geared toward the interests of the preservation community. In seven chapters arranged chronologically, Schmiechen considers the residential architecture of the two towns as they evolved from nineteenth-century fishing, manufacturing, and shipping communities to their twentieth-century incarnations as bucolic tourist villages catering to visitors arriving by automobile.	1
Although the book's primary focus is on the residences of the well-to-do, public and commercial buildings are not forgotten. Less emphasized, although not ignored, is the architecture of the vernacular landscape—fishing shanties, trinket shops for tourists, roads, public spaces, and parks. Although much of this type of architecture has been scantily documented, Schmiechen has reproduced examples that are quite interesting, including a fruit-growers' planting map and the outbuildings and auxiliary structures of small commercial fishermen.	. . .

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