With the course nearly ready to open in 1899, the sound of hammers echoed from the “picturesque  heights” above the 9^th fairway as Patrick Doud constructed a clubhouse for Wawashkamo.  Patrick Doud’s clubhouse design was well attuned to the changing building tastes of the day.    He and the club founders agreed on a vernacular, one story, cottage-type structure, built Mackinac-style on a foundation of cedar posts.  It was adorned with a columned porch wrapped around the north and east sides overlooking the 9^th fairway and green.  The vanishing old-growth forests of Northern Michigan (largely logged off by 1910) yielded a few remaining milled logs to be hand-finished as columns.  The “front porch”, with its inevitable rocking chairs, was one of America’s most cherished symbols of the day.