To move visitors around the island, the park constructed a small railroad. Henry Ford financed a dance hall that was rumored to have been designed and built by famed Detroit architect Albert Kahn. The dance hall was the second largest in the world, holding 5,000 dancers at full capacity and featured one of the world’s largest orchestrations from the Welte company: a 16 foot tall, 14 foot wide, self-playing orchestra with 419 pipes and percussion section.

I explored the abandoned Boblo Island Amusement Park in 2018 and found the contrast between the east side and the west side of the island to be very interesting. I was told by a local resident that they have been given the authorization and approvals to move forward with developing homes on the abandoned side of the island. Time will only tell what will come of the dance hall, the theater and the other remaining structures.