Historical Images of Porter County
Red Lantern Inn
Beverly Shores, Indiana
Date: 1968
Source Type: Postcard
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Unknown
Postmark: None
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: Text on reverse - The beautiful Red Lantern Inn is a resort hotel
on the shores of Lake Michigan at Beverly Shores, Ind. It features intimate
dining rooms. Large banquet facilities (for up to 500). Private business meeting
and dining rooms. Hotel rooms opening onto beautiful Lake Michigan. Superb
beaches. Phone (219) 874-6201 for banquet, dining, or hotel reservations. Ray
Stuermer, A.I.A. Architect.
Formerly Lenard's Casino, the Lenard family sold their property to Bill Dubulak,
Jack "Red" Panazzo, Neil Ruzic, and Joseph Ruzic in 1967. These men created the
Red Lantern Inn. Dibulak and Panazzo were former owners of the Red Lantern Inn
supper club on West 63rd Street in Chicago.
A resort, The Red Lantern Inn was designed around the existing Lenard's Casino
structure by Long Beach, LaPorte County, Indiana, architect and Notre Dame
University professor Ray Stuermer.
The first event took place in the facility's Lake View Banquet Room on Saturday,
April 26, 1968, when Rose Kennedy was the featured speaker at a political
gathering for her son Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign.
The property was purchased in 1971 by the United States Department of Interior's
National Park Service. The purchase included a Reservation of Use Permit issued
to Ralph and Grace Larson, of Minnesota, who continued operation of the facility
until Saturday, October 4, 1986, when the Red Lantern Inn permanently closed and
soon demolished. The site is now the picnic and parking overlook along Lake
Michigan in the Indiana Dunes National Park.
Information contributed by Carl O. Reed.
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Image and related text prepared by Steven R. Shook