| Old Brewery History |
| 1892 |
Property purchased from the United States of America by Patrick Kelly. |
| 1898 |
The Brewery Building is built. The red brick building is over 70 feet high, it walls are 26 inches thick, and it is designed to best suit the beer brewing method of the day. John Zaiger, chief brewmaster, partners with Frank and Garrett Fochtman and A. Bremmeyr. Ice is taken from Mud Lake behind the building to keep the building cool during the yearly production of approximately 18,000 barrels of Petoskey Sparkle and Petoskey Export. |
| 1908 |
Local residents vote the Brewery dry. |
| 1913 |
Local residents vote the Brewery wet. |
| 1915 |
Local residents vote the Brewery dry, and the Brewery is sold to William Love. |
| 1923 |
A fire, started by a passing train, burns three adjacent warehouses and a barn. The fire is no match for the massive brick Brewery. |
| 1928 |
Elizabeth Love opens a summer gift shop in the Old Brewery Building. |
| 1947 |
Ralph and Mary Jordan purchase the Brewery and open an antique shop. |
| 1973 |
Porter Vaughan, good friend of the Behan family, purchases the Brewery. He opens a cheese and wine shop on the main floor, and preserves the building as a Historical Landmark. |
| 1985 |
Pumco Interiors, a full service furniture, flooring and interior design business, relocates next door to the Brewery building. |
| 1995 |
Orvis Retail shop opens in the Brewery building. |
| 1996 |
Tom and Mary Behan purchase the Brewery from Evy Vaughan, widow of Porter Vaughan, and restore the interior and exterior of the building. |
| 1997 |
Porter's Home Furnishings opens in the Brewery as the largest free-standing and privately owned Ralph Lauren Furniture Collection Showroom in the country. |
| 2009 |
Pumco Interiors, founded in Petoskey in 1939, moves into its new Interior Design & Flooring Studio in the Brewery building. |
