House on the hill at Pebble Beach — Beaver Island Archive

Locator map: Pebble Beach subdivision highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago — Within Pebble Beach subdivisionLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.

Structure

Along road: East Side Drive
Coordinates: 45.7090° N, 85.5002° WGoogle Maps: House on the hill at Pebble Beach Download KML
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: heritagehousingtourism
Within: Pebble Beach subdivision

Summary

The “house on the hill” is a source-qualified name for a Sears kit house built by Bill Turner, his friends, and employees on the family’s lot in the Pebble Beach subdivision. The December 2024 profile says the house still stands, but does not identify its exact address or supply an architectural survey. The map point is the subdivision’s approximate cluster locator, not the house itself.

Evidence and limits

This record preserves a locally used structure name without converting the profile’s present-owner statement into a title claim or assigning a precise map point.

Sources

Northern Islander, December 2024, “Sue Turner Snow.”
The profile says Bill Turner and friends built a Sears kit house on his East Side Drive lot in the Pebble Beach subdivision, called it the house on the hill, and says it still stands. It does not give an exact address, builder contract, model number, survey, or independent architectural record. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
charlevoix · northern_islander_2024.12
Project calculation from the Charlevoix County parcel snapshot, retrieved 2026-08-06.
The point is the mean of current parcel-record centroids labeled Pebble Beach, used as an approximate subdivision locator because the profile places the Turner lot within that subdivision; it is not the house’s lot or building point.
county · charlevoix · parcels_arcgis · 2026-08-01 · island_parcel_attributes

Added 2 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “House on the hill at Pebble Beach”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/structures/house-on-the-hill-pebble-beach/, accessed [date], citing Northern Islander, December 2024, “Sue Turner Snow.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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