From the late 1800's until today, it is said to have harbored a feldspar mine, a hunting lodge, a Prohibition-era speakeasy run by Jack Kriendler and Charlie Berns -- founders of "21" in Manhattan -- a restaurant and a single-family residence.
The lodge was run as a hotel in the summer months while the school was closed until 1939.
Best of all, this small lodge is run by an incredibly welcoming family.
From 1936 to 1939, the lodge was run again as a hotel in the summer months while the school was closed.
On the other side of the water are the student "digs", a comfortable lodge run by Hyatt.
So you couldn't lodge a feminist objection, if they ran "10 hottest academics", and then stuck a load of physicists in fishnets (that, if I'm honest, never happened), because you were being humourless.
The lodge also ran an annual American Beauty carnival, with events including a golf tournament, water sports, moonlight bathing and night diving, a dinner dance, cinema program, and a concert.
The lodge is run by Mantis, which has a small portfolio of luxury boutique hotels primarily in South Africa and Europe.
In 1944, Larry and Jan Stults turned the house into the Cabbage Key Inn, now a rustic six-room lodge run by Rob and Phyllis Wells, who bought the island in the mid-1970's.
About 150km north of the Arctic Circle, it has two peaks and it offers great opportunities for summer and winter sport from a remote mountain lodge run by the Swedish Tourist Association (00 46 980 550 00; svenskaturistforeningen.se; doubles from SK1,340/116 for non members).
