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North Fork Revival Cottage 440K
The one that got away, above A YEAR AND A HALF AGO, I started this blog with a post moaning about the “perfect cottage” that got away. Someone went to contract on it, for 275K, as I was driving out … Continue reading
Xmas in Orient
THE OYSTERPONDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY lucked out yesterday. The annual holiday house tour of Orient, N.Y., easternmost town on Long Island’s North Fork, took place Saturday afternoon, before the Big Snow. I was there, enjoying hot cider and cookies in eyebrow … Continue reading
Posted in HISTORIC PRESERVATION, LONG ISLAND, NORTH FORK, OLD-HOUSE MAKEOVERS
Tagged 18th century, colonnade, cupola, East Marion, eyebrow Colonial, gingerbread, Greek Revival, Greenport, North Fork, Old Fields Vineyard, Orient, Oysterponds Historical Society, Victorian, Village Lane, Webb House
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One Weekend in Maine
CAPE PORPOISE, MAINE – Maine fulfilled my pre-conceived notions: rugged coastline, superior lobster, and lots of Revolutionary-era cottages and Victorian mansions — almost nothing but old houses, in fact, in the area around Kennebunkport. I particularly love the over-the-top yellow … Continue reading
Posted in ROAD TRIPS
Tagged brick, Cape Porpoise, Carpenter Gothic, Colonial, cottages, gingerbread, Kennebunkport, Maine, mansions, Revolutionary-era, Victorian
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