The renovation of an Earl Young home on a block filled with the celebrated mushroom houses has people talking in Charleviox. The once low-slung home now rises over the Park Avenue block. A modern addition is sandwiched between Young’s original first floor stone walls and a fantastical, flowing roof that’s being hand woven by a Scottish thatcher.
“The renovation that’s underway now is something that I’m going to have to live with for a while before I make a decision. The character of the original house is lost,” said David Miles, director of the Charlevoix Historical Society and the town’s unofficial Young expert. “It overpowers the neighborhood. It overpowers the house itself. But, I think we’re going to have to give it a chance.”
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