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2008 ONGOING PROJECTS
The Beverly Shores Historical Society currently has undertaken several preservation projects:
1) Beverly Shores Entrance Gate
The Gate is located on Central Avenue north of U. S, Highway # 12, Beverly Shores, Pine Township, Porter County.
The Beverly Shores Gate marks the entrance to Frederick H. Bartlett’s original 1927 subdivision of Lake Shore located near the eastern end of Beverly Shores at the former site of the South Shore Line Lake Shore railroad stop and Frederick H. Bartlett’s Lake Shore development sales office.
The Gate of Beverly Shores, ca: 1929
CSS&SB RR Lake Shore 1927 Station in Background
The entrance gate is made of ruff-hewn white stone with concrete mortar on a concrete slab. They are an identical pair mirror-imaged on either side of Central Avenue. Each one consists of a pair of piers, the inner one topped by a stone gable, with an arch in between them. On the south side of each gate, a curved buttressing wall tapers and ends with a shore pier. A curved walkway extends north from each side of the structure.
The Beverly Shores Entrance Gate is located within the boundaries of The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Its historic status has been withdrawn and declared excess U.S. government property. Therefore, budget allocations no longer exist to maintain this structure and it has been offered at no cost to the Town of Beverly Shores to be relocated, repaired and preserved or it will be destroyed.
Beverly Shores Gate — 2008
What is Needed
We need advice and expertise to determine the possibility of relocating the Entrance Gate.
2) Turtle Bridge
Turtle Bridge was part of the Botanical Gardens, west of the Beverly Shores Inn, located at Jones Avenue and Broadway. Although the Inn is long gone, Turtle Bridge remains and is still visible from Broadway in its original location.
Turtle Bridge — ca: 1934
Turtle Bridge — 2008
Mrs. Louise van Hees Young commenced the installation of the "Turtle Bridge,"
placed near the Pool of Peace, in the Dunes botanical garden, yesterday. This garden is at the back of Beverly Inn and is a unique and distinctive feature not only of Beverly itself, but of the whole mid-western states. As far as enquiry can be made there is no such thing anywhere else on this continent, certainlynot in Europe. People are already talking about this extraordinary work of art, and preparing to come from far and wide to the see the jewel like medallions which surround the pool.
— Reprinted from The Michigan News-Dispatch, Friday, June 15, 1934
Turtle, ceramic (ca 1934)
Created by: Louise van Hees Young (1876-1964)
Gift of: Thomas Oberle family, Beverly Shores
Restored by: Herbert George, Beverly Shores (1999)
Turtle Bridge is within the boundaries of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, in a recently restored marsh. The bridge must be moved or destroyed.
What is Needed
We need advice and expertise to determine the best way to relocate Turtle Bridge.
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