Eagle Harbor Inn

• 1 Bedroom
• 2 Bedroom
• Air Conditioning
• Allows Outside Catering
• Bed Linens furnished
• Cable
• Children Welcome
• Coffee Service (in unit)
• Cribs
• Cross-Country Skiing
• Deck
• Downtown
• DVD Player
• Fireplace-Common Area
• Fitness Center
• Full Kitchen
• Gas Fireplace-In-Unit
• Grill
• Hair Dryer
• Handicapped facilities
• High Speed Internet
• Honeymoon Suites
• Indoor Pool
• Internet Access (in rooms)
• Kitchen Facilities
• Limited Food Service
• Luggage Assistance
• Meeting Rooms-Conventions
• Microwave
• Mid-Week Savings
• Motor Coach Greet Service
• Non Smoking
• Off-Street Motor Coach Parking
• One Night Stay upon Availability
• Open Year Round
• Packages
• Picnic Area
• Playground
• Private Baths
• Refrigerator
• Sauna
• Showers
• Snowmobiling (Access to Trails)
• Suites
• Telephone (in unit)
• Television
• Travel Green Certified
• Two-Room Suites
• Whirlpool-Private
• Wireless Internet

Add elegance to your stay and choose the Spumante by the Fire Package. Welcomed with a bottle of chilled spumante, unwind watching the dancing flames of your two-way fireplace. Draw an herbal 6’ Whirlpool bath and enjoy the luxury of Custom Soaps and Loofah.

 HISTORY OF EAGLE HARBOR INN 
1920’s to present

In 1920, when Peter Knudson purchased the land where Eagle Harbor Inn (EHI) stands, a small log cabin known as a svalhus was the only building on site. The svalhus, Norwegian for “cooling house,” was built as a storage space around 1890 in the interior of Door County by Peter Peterson, a prominent Ephraim businessman. In the early 1900’s, the svalhus was moved to the EHI property.

 The svalhus served as jewelry silversmith Doris Heise Miller’s shop, Cabin Craft. Cabin Craft was one of the first art galleries in Northern Door County. It is said that Doris put her lunch in the stream, on the south side of the property, to keep it cold. 

 In 1938, the svalhus was joined by several white clapboard guest cottages when the Gorskis created a resort known as Eagle Harbor Cottages. Ultimately 12 cottages made up the resort with the owner’s house added last around 1948. The cottages were considered "sleeping cottages," offering a double bed, chair, dresser, private bathroom and sink in the room. The cottages were not winterized, but still charming with natural wainscoting & ceilings of matching bead board. In the early 1980s, Dick and Celeste Wegman turned the owners’ home at the center of the property into a B&B, one of the earliest in Door County. 

 In 1994, current owners Natalie and Nedd Neddersen took over the resort with plans to upgrade and expand the accommodations by building “houses" comprised of whirlpool suites. The Neddersens were in the process of pouring a foundation for the svalhus when the Ephraim Historical Foundation approached them to donate the building. With the stipulation that the tiny log cabin remain in the public domain, the Neddersens agreed to the donation. To preserve the building's integrity, every log was marked prior to the move to ensure correct placement on the Foundation's grounds on Anderson Lane.

The Gorski cottages also found a new home when Kathy Navis of Egg Harbor purchased them to create housing in Peninsula Center, moving them one by one on her sailboat trailer.

 The Neddersens had been in the hotel business throughout the United States. Living in Kona, Hawaii at the time of purchase, they decided to relocate their young family back to the couple’s native Wisconsin.  They visited from Hawaii in February 1994 with their two young daughters and fell in love with the Inn. That was 31 years ago.

 The couple ran EHI as the cottage resort the first year, with the intention of changing it to keep up with customer demand. From October 1994-May 1995 the front of the property was created: the Tamarack, Hawthorn & Hollyhock Houses, opening May 6, 1995, as one- and two-bedroom whirlpool suites, each privately owned but rented and managed by Natalie and Nedd. In the fall/winter of 1995-96, the back half of the property was completed and opened in May of 1996. Eagle Harbor Inn was completed as you see it today .The Neddersens own the 9-room inn and other buildings on the property. Although the centrally located inn is no longer a B&B, it still offers the quaint charm of yesteryear combined with modern amenities.