Name: CMU acquires the former Beaver Island Coast Guard boathouse, 2006
Start: 2006
End: 2006
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2006
Kind: Opening
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: scienceeducationmaritimeconstructionpropertycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Central Michigan University acquired the former Coast Guard boathouse on Beaver Island in 2006 for Biological Station boat and equipment storage, teaching, research, and visiting-institution use. The reported purchase and improvements totaled $1.25 million.

Evidence limits

The report gives the purchase and intended uses but not a deed, closing date, final fundraising total, or completed improvements.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beaver Island Forum topic 631, "Little Traverse Conservancy," June 27, 2006.
A community participant relayed a Little Traverse Conservancy magazine report that the former Coast Guard boathouse would be used as a Great Lakes research-vessel base. This is a secondary forum reference and does not establish the facility's final operating use; the Beaver Beacon purchase report remains stronger for the acquisition and planned functions.
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Beaver Beacon, May 2006, "Beaver Island Boathouse Promises CMU Students New Adventures."
Reports CMU's $1.25 million purchase of the 2,850-square-foot former Coast Guard boathouse, funded by more than $1 million in gifts with $78,000 still to raise, for Biological Station boat storage, instruction, research, and visiting institutions. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-05_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, May 2006, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the boathouse report and photograph.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-05_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “CMU acquires the former Beaver Island Coast Guard boathouse, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-cmu-boathouse-purchase-2006/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum topic 631, "Little Traverse Conservancy," June 27, 2006. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

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