The "cottagecore" trend may have come and gone—but there is one element of that lifestyle that continues to soar in popularity among homebuyers: the coastal cottage. While open to interpretation as ...

If these walls could swim ... The last house standing on the southern end of Hunting Island is a quizzical sight, perched alone on pilings surrounded by the swirling sea. The beach cottage looks ...

For the Hultquist family, there is only one place on Earth to spend summers: their Holy Island cottage in Northern Michigan. Some 16 years back, a friend of Jim Hultquist’s invited him to bring his ...

Editor’s note: “Little Blue,” the landmark cottage at Hunting Island, was torn down in 2017 after erosion of the beach made it unsafe. This is a condensed version of a longer column by retired writer ...