The Castle building exhibits various educational species like fennec fox, corn snakes, and a living beehive.

The Farm exhibits miniature domestic horses, donkeys, pigs, and goats which may be fed by guests.

Hopes were that the zoo would provide recreation and education not only for residents of Michigan City but also to the thousands who spent their summers at nearby resorts.

This was an island with a surrounding moat, a high exterior wall, an access tunnel for the animals from their indoor enclosures.

An observation tower east of the zoo that overlooks the lake, and the "castle" that houses small mammals followed by 1937.

The tower is a creation of a steel faced with limestone and the roof is topped with a spherical ornament reported to be a compression chamber from the city's first fire engine.