Shady Bluff (1022 E. Shore Dr.)

1879 - Aug 20 - target=new Maxinkuckee Lake, Marshall County...

Mr. Ed R. Wheeler, of Plymouth, has just completed an elegant summer residence on the east bank, where he and his family are now spending the summer.

1880 - Jul 29 - "Shady Bluff," the summer home of Mr. Edward R. Wheeler, of Plymouth. Here is a delightful house, beautifully situated, facing south on the lake. Mr. Wheeler has made it a home in all senses of the word. The yard is terraced down to the beach. In the lake, a short distance out, the "Arleta" floats at anchor, raising and falling with the Waves, her white canvas lapping lazily in the wind. The beach in front of Shady Bluff is the favorite bathing ground the people on this side of the lake, the shore and bottom being fine sand, and clear of obstructions

By fact found they place the cottage in two different locations

1022 East Shore Drive 1040 East shore drive

The Millikan Cottage (larger to the north or left) at 1012 E. Shore)and smaller to the south or Right is Shady Bluff



1897 - May 28 - Mr. Harry Wheeler, of Chicago, and who owns a cottage on the east side of the lake, was in town Monday.

1897 - Oct 22 Edward B Wheeler, of Chicago, who owned a cottage of the east side of the lake and a former resident of this city, died Saturday October 16. He was interred in Oak Hill cemetery at Plymouth, Monday.

1898 - R. Wheeler

___ - E. R. Wheeler

1898 - J. & A. Vafen/John Henry Vajen and Alice (Fugate) Vajen

1900 - Wm. E. Wheeler

1903 - Wheeler

Mrs H. A wheeler and family are now enjoying the breezes of old lake Maxinkuckee at their lovely home of the east side. mrs. wheeler's husband erected one of the first cottages on the shores of the lake nearly 22 years ago, and a they visited the lake and camped out three or four years before the cottage was built, she has spent over 25 summers on the lake shore. in fact Mrs. Wheeler has seen and noted with pride the may improvemnets that have taken place during these years - July 5, 1901
1903 - Newspaper snippets mentions Shady Bluff and these two names in connection with it: Harry Wheeler - Westfield, Ill. and Robert Morrison, Indianapolis

1908 Wheeler Est. The Lot Numbers in red are tody's (2015) working from both directions the Brawnell and Marmon cottage the area in between has been decipherd somewhat. The lot sizes and shape have changed some what

1908 - H. Bliss [Henry R. Bliss] North lot = 1110 E, Shore Middle lot = 1120 E, Shore < South Lot = 1206 E, Shore

Wheeler Est - Shady Bluff

1919 - new numbering system east side

174 Harry Wheeler

1928 - Jul 18

Mrs. Henry R. Bliss from Indianapolis, has bought the old Wheeler cottage on the East SIde and after remodeling it will occupy it for the summer.

1928 - Aug 22 - William English Wheeler and husband WD to Margaret H. Bliss, Lake Front Lot in Lot 1 in 22-31-1- $1.00




Tho someone has mistakenly labeled the photo above as the Peru Club (which is further south at 894 E. Shore aka Peeples Point) it resembles the photos below too much. It is a very early view of the cottage.

This first above is a cropped section of the postcard below and one can see that the cottage has been enlarged to the right and there on that portion of the cottage one can read "Shady Bluff". It looks as if they connected the two buildings in the first photo and enlarged it.









Note by the post cards above that Shady Bluff was at one time larger than portrayed in the photographs.

Henry Bliss Photo Album - The photograph titled "Shady Bluff South Side" (the two boys with two dogs on the beach) is actually taken from the south side of Shady Bluff showing the north and lake side of our cottage, 1040 East Shore Drive, which was owned by the Wheeler heirs and then was purchased about 1913 by Gideon and Florence Blain, our grandparents. - Mary Stuart Clark, Margot Helms Maxinkuckee August 1994. In the Aug 29 1956 - Culver Citizen

Henry W. Bliss, Lake Resident 56 Years Diea At Indianapolis...

The Bliss family came to Lake Macinkuckee shortly after the turn of the century and purchased the Shady Bluff cottage on the East Shore....