| Morris G. Clarke built his home at 215 East Chicago Street
in 1903. Mr. Clarke hired a Chicago Architect, Ashbury Buckley,
who had designed many of the homes in Mackinac Island in the
late 1800's.
Mr. Clarke, who was a Coldwater merchant, had his home built
in the Colonial Reform style, complete with massive Greek
Revival columns. When the Clarke mansion was finished, it
had cost him a total of $15,000.00.
Morris lived in this beautiful mansion with his wife, Margaret,
sons Charles and Edwin (called Ned), and daughter Sophia,
until his death in 1927. Margaret continued to live in the
home until her death in 1936.
In 1936, sons Charles and Edwin sold the property to a family
that turned it into a rooming house. The Clarke mansion continued
as a rooming house until 1988.
Harold and Jane Schultz bought the Clarke home in the fall
of 1988, and completely restored it to the splendor you see
today. On June 20, 1989, the beautiful Clarke mansion was
opened as a Bed & Breakfast, known as the Chicago Pike
Inn.
On December 9, 2005
John and Nancy Krajny purchased the Inn and renamed it Chicago
Pike Inn & Spa since it now has a Beauty
Salon and Massage Room
The Inn has many highlights - the gleaming cherry woodwork,
the end cut parquet floors, the landing is illuminated by
an Original Kokomo Opalescent Glass Window, made in Kokomo,
Indiana.
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