Historian Steve VanderVeen returns to The Sentinel for a three-part series about Eighth Street landmark The Warm Friend.

The entrepreneur directly responsible for The Warm Friend Tavern was August Landwehr, but Landwehr wasn’t a hotelier.

But the newly built spur of the Chicago and West Michigan Railway, which ran between Holland and Ottawa Beach, hurt their business. So, in 1895, Boone (along with E.O. Philips) bought back the hotel.

Summer in Holland offers beautiful views of Lake Michigan and Holland's inland ... and boardwalk east of the park (accessible ...