Michigan is the only state that offers both a year-round house and a summer residence for its governor. Since 1945, Michigan’s governors have gotten to use a summer home on a bluff overlooking the Straits of Mackinac on Mackinac Island.
Kathleen Gray writes in the Free Press this house is an 11-bedroom, 9½-bath, 7,100-square-foot beauty constructed from field stones, Georgia yellow pine and Michigan white pine. It has a much-envied wraparound porch that offers stunning views of the Mackinac Bridge, the Grand Hotel, a golf course and the harbor leading into the auto-free island.
Since Gov. Rick Snyder took office in 2011, the home has undergone nearly $700,000 in improvements, repairs and refurbishments.
“We just hosted seven first ladies from across the country for a four-day conference. They wanted to spend every minute out here on the porch,” first lady Sue Snyder said during a recent tour of the house. “They said they were all going to bring their husbands back because it’s a magical place. And that’s kind of how we feel, too.”
