The Blossom Heath Inn began as a roadhouse called the Kramerhof, built in 1911 by Mathew Kramer. On August 18, 1914, his only son, Mathew, went for a swim before dinner, dove into shallow water in Lake St. Clair, broke his neck, and drowned. Mathew Kramer, Sr. died on March 8, 1917, and on May 1, 1917, Prohibition came to Michigan, forcing roadhouse proprietors to decide whether to obey or violate the law. Mathew's widow, Bertha, married Louis Voss in 1919, and on April 10, 1920, Louis and Bertha Voss sold the Kramerhof to William McIntosh and Harry Frazer for $110,000. They renamed it the Blossom Heath Inn and added two large wings, including an ornate ballroom called the Pavilion Royale. Blossom Heath became one of Michigan's most luxurious roadhouses, hosting nationally known big bands that drew patrons from Detroit and Canada, and it also became notorious during Prohibition for illegal drinking and gambling. Gambling took place upstairs and in the basement, with a buzzer on the stairway newel post used by the doorman to warn casino patrons when federal officers arrived, and rum-runners brought bootleg whiskey through a basement back door by boat from Canada after dark. After McIntosh accidentally drowned in 1930, his heirs ran the roadhouse, but by the late 1930s the heyday of roadhouses had ended, and in 1943 Blossom Heath was sold to Harold Walden. The building soon fell into disuse, but in February 1946 the village of St. Clair Shores bought the building and surrounding land for $83,000, used more than 150 gallons of paint to renovate it, and reopened it on May 19, 1946, as a civic center with village offices in the north wing. It became the St. Clair Shores Recreation Center in 1957 after completion of the current city hall, was leased in 1985 by Oak Management as a banquet facility, and in May 2015 Kosch Hospitality assumed operation and invested $200,000 to restore the circular dance floor, mahogany bar, and ballroom dome plaster work to their original glamorous state.