This image shows the Morrow House Hotel in Bad Axe — a big, three-story wooden hotel with a wraparound porch and a horse-drawn carriage out front. The building name “MORROW” is visible on the upper story.
Local history sources say Thomas Morrow built the “Morrow House” in 1883, putting a full-size hotel on what was still a young county-seat town in Michigan’s Thumb. By the mid-1890s, newspapers mention clerks working at the Morrow House, a reminder that this wasn’t just a landmark — it was a working place where travelers ate, slept and swapped news.
Do you know where this stood in Bad Axe — or have family stories about staying at the Morrow House?
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