Mackinac Island · East end
Mission Point Resort
Built 1954–58 as the Moral Re-Armament movement's conference center, then Mackinac College; Somewhere in Time was filmed here in 1979.
- Built
- 1954–58Main Lodge is Moral Re-Armament's Great Hall complex, built 1955-56 with two residence halls (150 rooms) and dedicated September 24, 1956; MRA West Residence Hall 1956-57 (NHL nomination). The resort says MRA built today's Main Lodge and Straits Lodge 1954-58.
- Style
- Mid-century Modern with log and stone (MRA conference center)
- Architect
- William Woollett (Great Hall and Theater)
- Type
- Resort
- Rooms
- 243
- Area
- East end
- Credentials
- Inside a National Register historic district
The story
The Moral Re-Armament movement bought land at Mission Point in 1951 and from 1954 built a conference center: a log-trussed theater (1954-55), the tepee-inspired Great Hall complex (1955-56) designed by William Woollett of Los Angeles, dormitories and a film studio (1959-60). The MRA deeded the property to Mackinac College, which operated 1966-70. Universal used the studio and theater to film Somewhere in Time in 1979, when the property was called the Inn on Mackinac. John Shufelt bought it in 1987 and named it Mission Point Resort; Dennert and Suzanne Ware bought it in 2014.
The ghost story
The resort's best-known ghost story, per WDIV ClickOnDetroit, is Harvey, a heartbroken man said to have died behind the property in the late 1960s and not been found for six months. Visitors to Mission Point's theater, where Harvey is said to linger, have reported being pinched or poked.
Source: www.clickondetroit.com
Good to know
- Pets welcome
- Address: Mackinac Island, MI 49757
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Last verified October 2026. Details change; confirm with the inn before you book.