Jacob J. Post House

Cheboygan businessman Jacob J. Post built this Queen Anne-style house in 1886. The residence was designed by Frederick W. Hollister of Saginaw and reflects Post’s prominence in the community. A New York native, Post received a medical discharge from the Union army in 1863. He then worked in a general store where he learned the merchant trade. In 1872 Post and his wife, Cornelia, settled in Cheboygan. Here he opened Cheboygan’s first hardware store and founded the First National Bank of Cheboygan.