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History of Hotels and Inns
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Butternut
Greenville
Stanton
Trufant
Langston
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Butternut
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![Eagle Hotel, Butternut [Click here to view full size picture]](media/history/tn_51.jpg "Eagle Hotel, Butternut [Click here to view full size picture]")
The Eagle Hotel was located in the small village of Butternut, in Bloomer Township, four miles west of Carson City. At one time Butternut boasted of a post office, cheese factory, dry goods store and several other businesses.
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![Private residence (formerly Eagle Hotel) Butternut [Click here to view full size picture]](media/history/tn_52.jpg "Private residence (formerly Eagle Hotel) Butternut [Click here to view full size picture]")
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Greenville
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![Winter Inn dinning room, Greenville, early 1900's [Click here to view full size picture]](media/history/tn_hotel02.jpg "Winter Inn dinning room, Greenville, early 1900's [Click here to view full size picture]")
The Winter Inn, in Greenville, was built between 1900 and 1902. The first hotel on this site was built in 1850. It and several others built on the same site were destroyed by fire. The Inn had thirty-five rooms and provided stagecoach service to the railroad station for its guests. It was later renovated and restored.
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![Winter Inn, Greenville, early 1900's [Click here to view full size picture]](media/history/tn_hotel03.jpg "Winter Inn, Greenville, early 1900's [Click here to view full size picture]")
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![Hotel Phelps, Greenville, early 1900's [Click here to view full size picture]](media/history/tn_hotel04.jpg "Hotel Phelps, Greenville, early 1900's [Click here to view full size picture]")
Hotel Phelps, in Greenville, was built by T. I. Phelps in 1887. It had sixty-five rooms and offered transportation for its guests to the local lakes.
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Stanton
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The Montcalm Hotel was among a number that flourished in Stanton. Others were the Exchange Hotel, the Stanton House and the Bailey House. The name Montcalm Hotel was a popular one as there was one in Howard City as well as several other communities.
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Trufant
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![IOOF Hall, Trufant [Click here to view full size picture]](media/history/tn_40.jpg "IOOF Hall, Trufant [Click here to view full size picture]")
This building on Second St. in Trufant, was formerly a hotel built by a Mr. Stimpson. It later housed many businesses before it became the meeting hall of Odd Fellows and Rebecca organizations.
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Langston
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![D. Lang's Hotel, Langston about 1854 [Click here to view full size picture]](media/history/tn_16.jpg "D. Lang's Hotel, Langston about 1854 [Click here to view full size picture]")
Before the advent of the railroad, the Inn at Langston served travellers on the busy road from Greenville to Big Rapids.
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This page last updated on 7/14/2009.
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![Eagle Hotel, Butternut [Click here to view full size picture]](javascript:showPic(new picObj('media/history/51.jpg', 'Eagle Hotel, Butternut',297,201)); "Eagle Hotel, Butternut [Click here to view full size picture]")
![Private residence (formerly Eagle Hotel) Butternut [Click here to view full size picture]](javascript:showPic(new picObj('media/history/52.jpg', 'Private residence (formerly Eagle Hotel) Butternut',297,201)); "Private residence (formerly Eagle Hotel) Butternut [Click here to view full size picture]")
![Winter Inn dinning room, Greenville, early 1900's [Click here to view full size picture]](javascript:showPic(new picObj('media/history/hotel02.jpg', 'Winter Inn dinning room, Greenville, early 1900\'s',332,212)); "Winter Inn dinning room, Greenville, early 1900's [Click here to view full size picture]")
![Winter Inn, Greenville, early 1900's [Click here to view full size picture]](javascript:showPic(new picObj('media/history/hotel03.jpg', 'Winter Inn, Greenville, early 1900\'s',330,210)); "Winter Inn, Greenville, early 1900's [Click here to view full size picture]")
![Hotel Phelps, Greenville, early 1900's [Click here to view full size picture]](javascript:showPic(new picObj('media/history/hotel04.jpg', 'Hotel Phelps, Greenville, early 1900\'s',328,211)); "Hotel Phelps, Greenville, early 1900's [Click here to view full size picture]")
![IOOF Hall, Trufant [Click here to view full size picture]](javascript:showPic(new picObj('media/history/40.jpg', 'IOOF Hall, Trufant',297,200)); "IOOF Hall, Trufant [Click here to view full size picture]")
![D. Lang's Hotel, Langston about 1854 [Click here to view full size picture]](javascript:showPic(new picObj('media/history/16.jpg', 'D. Lang\'s Hotel, Langston about 1854',300,203)); "D. Lang's Hotel, Langston about 1854 [Click here to view full size picture]")