Download or read book Mushroom Houses of Charlevoix written by Michael Barton and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Mike Barton has colorfully captured the Mushroom Houses of Charlevoix designed by Earl Young in more than 130 full-color photographs. The hard cover book has 80 pages. Earl Young never met a stone he didn¿t like. Young designed and built twenty-one unique stone houses that look like they came from fairy tales. Ranging in size from large sprawling homes to tiny one-bedroom cottages, they are constructed of ice age boulders, fieldstone, and area limestone. Young¿s creations are referred to by many people as the Mushroom Houses because of their unusual shapes and sweeping round rooflines ¿ they appear to blend into their natural settings as if they sprouted from the ground. Their inadequate size has required many homeowners to renovate to make them more roomy and useful. It¿s as if Young designed these rooms for, well, elves?