Documenting Our Historic District: One House at a Time presented by Lakesiders Doug Huber & Laurie Switzer | June 22nd, 2025 at 1:30 pm | Seminar takes place in Orchestra Hall.

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In 2021, the Historic Preservation and Design Review Board and the Lakeside Association accepted a gift from a donor to create a housing inventory of the Lakeside Historic District. Schooley Caldwell, an architectural firm, was hired to create the original database complete with details and photographs of the exterior of each cottage. In 2024, with funding from the Lakeside Association and an Ohio History Records Advisory Board Grant, the records have been transferred to the Lakeside Heritage Society online database available to the public on the website,  www.lakesideheritagesociety.org. Doug Huber and Laurie Switzer will explain the conversion and the expansion of individual home records. The goal going forward will be to not only capture Historic Design Review Board records on renovation or new build projects, but to tie Lakeside Chautauqua's history to a home when possible. An even more important goal of the project is to make records more accessible to the general public with some available to only current homeowners.

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History of Heritage Hall and the Lakeside United Methodist Church presented by Lakesiders Tom Campbell & Gretchen Curtis | July 6th, 2025 at 1:30 pm | Seminar takes place in Orchestra Hall. 

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In 1875, members of the Danbury Methodist Episcopal Church, who shared a small building with the Marblehead Congregational Church, decided to construct a new frame church in the near-by two-year-old camp meeting and family resort called “Lakeside.” That fledging group started the Lakeside Methodist Church that celebrates 150 years of worship and community service in 2025. This 150-year-old congregation has been served by 41 pastors and worshipped in three church buildings. Of greater importance, the congregation has played an essential role in creating Lakeside’s community, contributing to Methodism in Ohio, and providing support for world-wide Methodist missions.

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The History of the U.S. Lifesaving Service on the Marblehead Peninsula presented by local historian Dennis Kennedy | July 19th, 2025 at 1:30 pm | Seminar takes place in Orchestra Hall. 

 

​Dennis will be talking about the history of the US Lifesaving Service and its evolution into the US Coast Guard. This slide presentation also features the establishment of the US Lifesaving Station Museum and the restoration of a wooden 1931 SB (type S) Coast Guard surf boat.

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Goetz Family Legacy: The Origin Story of Five Foundational Lakeside Programs presented by Matthew Goetz | July 27th, 2025 at 1:30 pm | Seminar takes place in Orchestra Hall.

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Lakeside is a collection of origin stories, and this one begins in 1941 with a lost child who eventually emerges on stage at Hoover Auditorium pushing a piano, much to the relief and mild embarrassment of his parents, who had already been Lakesiders for a decade at that point. What they could not have known as their son slipped away to catch his first glimpse of television through a neighbor’s window, was that this boy would return to Lakeside 50 years later as the Director of Religious and Educational Programming. In that role, he would create some of the most enduring programs in the history of the community where he had grown up. As recounted by their son Matthew, this interactive presentation is about the origin story of God Squad, Middle Grade Madness, the Wednesday Night Family Picnic, early-morning dockside communion services, the Rhein Center—and The Reverend Dr. Herbert M. Goetz, Jr., who, together with his wife Mary Ann, helped establish these foundational programs through which generations of children have created their own Lakeside origin stories.

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Hotel Lakeside: 150 Years of Hospitality presented by Lakesider, author, and local historian George McCormick | August 3rd, 2025 at 1:30 pm | Seminar takes place in Orchestra Hall. 

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Hotel Lakeside was the first substantial structure built in Lakeside, two years after the settlement’s founding. The Hotel has been twice enlarged and continues to be restored and modernized. This presentation will cover the story of this building with all of its many fascinating twists and turns, told by the man who has been there for nearly half of its life and who is today its biggest champion.

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These Lakeside Houses Came with Taillights presented by Lakesider Terry Johnson | August 10th, 2025 at 1:30pm | Seminar takes place in Orchestra Hall.

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There are many new homes built in the last few years that are “stick built,” piece by piece from the ground up – lumber, siding electrical wiring, plumbing, etc. But also, in the past and even today, new homes are trucked into Lakeside and assembled on site, in some cases within hours. This presentation will take a look at what some of the modular homes that were built in the early part of the 20th century look like up to and including a video of a home assembled in the early 2000’s.

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Lakeside Memories Panel presented by Marilyn Burns, Joe Caner, and Willie Sommervil | August 17th, 2025 at 1:30 pm | Seminar takes place in Orchestra Hall. 

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Long-time Lakesiders share their favorite Lakeside memories and stories.