Guided Tours of the Charles Gates Dawes House October 14, 2012

Designated a national Historic Landmark in 1976, the Dawes House was built in 1894-5 on a two-acre lakeshore site. Designed in the style of French chateaux by Henry Edwards-Ficken of New York, the massive three-and-a- half story structure has twenty-five rooms, six bedrooms, seven bathrooms and eleven fireplaces.