Photograph of Bowers Harbor Inn — Photograph by Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Stickney Summer House-Bowers Harbor Inn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Bowers Harbor Inn is a restaurant located at 13512 Peninsula Drive in Peninsula Township, Michigan. It was constructed in 1928 as a private house, the Stickney Summer House, and renovated into the restaurant in the late 1950s; it now houses the Mission Table and Jolly Pumpkin Restaurants.”
Wikipedia article Bowers Harbor Inn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Grand Traverse County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Stickney Summer House--Bowers Harbor Inn - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 13512 Peninsula Dr, Peninsula, 49686
When was it listed? April 2011
Category. building
Township. Peninsula township
Architectural style. Arts and Crafts movement
National Register reference number. 11000178 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Stickney Summer House-Bowers Harbor Inn between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 June 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PENINSULA TOWNSHIP FD 0000258 - 2019
9 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PENINSULA TOWNSHIP FD 0000152 - 2018
12 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	PENINSULA TOWNSHIP FD 0000160 - 2018
5 April 1992	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Grand Traverse County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dougherty Mission House	5.0 miles	2011
Hedden Hall	5.8 miles	1982
John Pulcipher House	6.4 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000178 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grand Traverse County	All 12 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.