Place · USA
USA
Earl Young's Charlevoix stone houses are concentrated in the 'Park Avenue area' and the 'Boulder Park' district; all 28 are private residences with no public interior access, though guided walking and Gem Car tours are offered.
Between roughly 1918 and 1970, self-taught architect Earl Young designed and built about 28 organic-form stone houses in Charlevoix using fieldstone and boulders — no straight lines, no sharp corners, and undulating rooflines.
Earl Young's mushroom houses predate and have no relationship to the broader 'organic architecture' movement of Frank Lloyd Wright or Rudolf Steiner — they are the product of one eccentric local builder with no formal training.