The original owners of the Blue Door Inn's building were the Tritsch Brothers (Franz & Johann) from Baden, Germany. They opened a blacksmith shop in Alma and later a hardware store. They were quite enterprising ending with an entire block of businesses known as Tritsch's Brick Block.
The front door of the Inn is now 30" above the sidewalk and the original front door (gone for almost 100 years) has been restored. That's another story but let's just say that the step out the door is a big one!
I've been think about installing a Juliet balcony but then I found this great 19th century John Deere wooden spoke wheel with an iron rim and decided that it would make a great balcony rail and would pay homage to the roots of the building ... the blacksmith shop.
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