Photograph of Austin H. and Frankie A. Dwight Summer House — Photograph by Jack Walton, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dwight, Austin H., and Frankie A., Summer House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Dwight Summer House, also known as the Bay Pointe Restaurant, was a building constructed as a private summer home, located on Gun Lake at 11456 Marsh Road in Shelbyville, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1982 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Austin H. and Frankie A. Dwight Summer House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Barry County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 11456 Marsh Rd., Shelbyville, 49344
When was it listed? March 1985
Category. building
Township. Orangeville township
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 85000656 - 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

48 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Dwight, Austin H., and Frankie A., Summer House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 117 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 were 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
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
26 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BARRY 07
13 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
29 August 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
2 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.3 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BARRY 06 - PAYNE LAKE RD.
10 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
9 July 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
23 July 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Barry 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Long Lake Group Camp Historic District	2.6 miles	1996
	Chief Noonday Group Camp Historic District	4.0 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000656 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Barry County	All 9 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.