Belle Tower of Petoskey is a historic building currently undergoing restoration. Please note that the venue is not yet ADA accessible, and amenities may be limited while work continues. Your visit helps preserve this community landmark.
Belle Tower of Petoskey
A Historic Venue for Community, Craft, and Celebration.
Belle Tower of Petoskey is a historic 1891 church in downtown Petoskey, being restored and reimagined as a community-centered venue for events, performances, classes, creative studios, small business incubation, and cultural gatherings.
Located at 224 Michigan Street, Belle Tower is becoming a place where preservation, creativity, entrepreneurship, and community life come together under one historic roof.
A New Chapter for a Historic Petoskey Landmark
Belle Tower began as a place of gathering, worship, and community connection. More than 130 years later, the building is being brought back to life as a flexible public venue and creative hub in the heart of downtown Petoskey.
The project honors the building’s history while creating new opportunities for local artists, musicians, teachers, wellness practitioners, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, families, and visitors.
From concerts and community dances to workshops, weddings, studio rentals, fundraisers, markets, lectures, and private celebrations, Belle Tower is designed to support the people and ideas that make Northern Michigan special.
Now Welcoming Studio, Rehearsal, Wellness, and Event Inquiries
Belle Tower is entering a new phase of activation. In addition to private events and community gatherings, the building now hosts lower-level creative tenants and welcomes select inquiries for studio rentals, private band rehearsals, wellness classes, workshops, and mission-aligned programming.
Whether you are an artist, musician, maker, instructor, wellness practitioner, nonprofit, or community organizer, Belle Tower offers a distinctive historic setting for meaningful work.
Creative Work Is Already Happening Here
Belle Tower is already home to a growing group of tenants and partners who are helping to bring daily life, creativity, and purpose back into the building.
Current lower-level tenants include:
Restoration Is Underway
Belle Tower is an active rehabilitation project. Exterior improvements, painting, floor refinishing, plumbing, and early interior work are helping prepare the building for expanded community use.
The long-term vision includes restoring the building for safe, flexible, year-round public use while preserving its historic character and architectural presence in downtown Petoskey.
Every studio lease, rehearsal rental, wellness class, private event, ticket purchase, and donation helps support the ongoing restoration and reuse of Belle Tower.
Watch: Saving Belle Tower
This webinar, presented through the Michigan Historic Preservation Network, tells the story of Belle Tower of Petoskey — the ongoing effort to preserve and reimagine a historic 1891 former Seventh-day Adventist church in downtown Petoskey.
In the presentation, Lindsey Dotson shares the building's history, its architectural significance, and the practical realities of bringing a long-underused historic property back into active community life. The talk explores Belle Tower’s connection to Michigan’s Seventh-day Adventist history, its listing on the National Register of Historic Places, and the many steps involved in adaptive reuse, from research and storytelling to code requirements, financing tools, partnerships, and phased rehabilitation.