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In its heyday, the Inn arranged for buckboard rides to Castine, Cater- pillar Hill, Alamoosook, and Newbury Neck, and sailboat excursions down the bay, as well. Vacationers were especially pleased by a buckboard trip to the Traveler's Home, in Sedgwick, where they were served a chicken supper before the moonlight return trip. A small orchestra played each Saturday night, and the Inn was open to the young people of the town who joined its guests on these occasions.
As the trees grew tall and the view was obscured, the hotel seemed too far removed from the water. Finally abandoned, it stood vacant for some years before being bought by Judge Chauncey Truax, of New York. Judge Truax removed the large kitchen and part of the dining room to convert the building to a summer home. After his death, it remained unoccupied until it was destroyed by fire in 1932.
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KEY TO MAP OF SUMMER RESIDENTS' HOUSES
I The house of Mrs. Helen Norcross, of Wellesley, Mass., one of the oldest members of the summer colony. Mrs. Norcross's daughter has a small house near the road.
2 The cottage of Mr. Louis Gelders, of Wilton, Conn., was built about 1903 by a man named Carlton. Bought about 1913 by Rev. and Mrs. Gilbert Fox- well, it was sold to George Hall and his daughter, Mrs. E. Grammar, and resold in 1948 to Mr. Gelders.
3 The house of Rev. Lewis H. Cutler, of Boonton, N. J., was built by Robert Day about 1881. It was sold to George Grindle in 1930, and to Rev. Cutler in 1948.
4 The cottage situated on a high knoll overlooking the bay was built by Frederick Bierhoff in 1927. It is now owned by Mr. Orville Poland, of Boston, Mass.
5 The cabin of Mr. Clarence Conroy, of Lexington, Mass., was built as temporary quarters in 1947.
6 The cottage built on the site of the former South Blue Hill steamboat wharf is owned by Mrs. Gertrude Allen, of Sedgwick.
7 Three cabins on the shore and a small study in the woods belonging to Prof. Amos Wilder, of Chicago, Ill. The land was bought from Walter Staples and the main cabin built in 1948.
8 Roslyn was built by Henning Fernstrom, of Norfolk, Va., in the early 1900s. The Fernstroms, who were friends of the Lusks, came to Parker Point about 1898, and spent several summers there before building their own cottage on the South Blue Hill shore. Both Roslyn and The Farmhouse, were inherited by Karl Fernstrom; Roslyn is now owned by Mrs. Katherine B. Fernstrom.
9 The Farmhouse, which was built by Stillman Candage and sold by his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Gilbert Candage, to Henning Fernstrom, is now owned by Miss Maud Ann Byrd, of Manchester, N. H.
10 The old Israel Friend house was sold by Delia Moulton ( grand-daughter of the original owner ) to Betty Will in 1913. Later, it was bought and re- modeled by Leslie Leveque (Mrs. Will's son-in-law) whose heirs are the present owners.
11 In a field back from the Pond is a bungalow, formerly the home of Betty Will, and now owned by Mrs. Walter Will and Mr. Philip Will of Rochester. 12 Studio of Miss Blanca Will, of Rochester, N. Y.
13 Arcady, on the shore side of the Falls Bridge, was built by Ann Paul Nevin (widow of the composer, Ethelbert Nevin) in 1913. The architect was Wallace Hinckley, of Blue Hill. Mrs. Nevin, who was a school friend of Anne Strobel, came to Blue Hill in the summer of 1903, when she rented the Wulf Fries cottage. In succeeding years, she became actively interested in the welfare of the town, and was influential in organizing the Village Improvement Society. Arcady is now owned by Mr. Donald S. Leas, of Philadelphia, Pa.
14 Wakonda, which is situated on Mill Island, was built for Mrs. Nevin in 1904. The cottage was rented for many summers before being sold to Dr. James Anders, of Philadelphia, Pa. The Anders, who were motoring through Maine, were so charmed by Blue Hill that they rented the cottage and subse- quently bought it. It is now owned by Margaret G. Anders' estate.
15 Airly Beacon, on Mill Island, is now owned by the Ann P. Nevin estate. In 1903, Mrs. Nevin bought land between the Tide Mill bridge and the Falls bridge. Both Airly Beacon and Wakonda were built in the following year - the former on the shore side of the road, and the latter on the Salt Pond.
16 Tide Mill House, the former Brooks Gray house, which was also bought by Mrs. Nevin, is now occupied by her daughter, Miss Doris Nevin, who has made several changes and additions to the original building.
17 Three Tides, built in 1831 by Capt. Isaac Merrill, was sold in the 1850s to Joseph Conary, in 1912 to Mrs. H. H. Garrett, and, in 1945, to Mr. A. Gurnee Gallien by Christina Garrett.
18 Manor House, on the south side of the cove, was built in 1835 by John Cheever, who kept a store, built ships, manufactured shoes, and had a wharf in the cove. The house was bought and restored by Mrs. Nevin, who later sold it to Mrs. Samuel Ashurst, of Philadelphia, Pa., the present owner.
19 This point of land, formerly owned by Capt. Alton B. Conary, was bought by Josiah Davidson, of Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1913. Hle and his wife, friends of Springer Harbaugh, had spent many summers at different cottages on Parker Point, taking their meals at The Homestead. In 1913, they built Blythelyn on the outer bay. The cottage is now owned by Mrs. A. Gurnee Gallien and named Blue Vue.
20 Larchwood Lodge, which was built in 1949 by William P. Palmer, Jr., is occupied by Mr. and Mrs. A. Gurnee Gallien. Larchwood, the house built in 1921 by William P. Palmer, of Cleveland, Ohio, is being taken down.
21 Ledgewood Clippings was built for Mrs. William H. Greene, of Phila- delphia, Pa., in 1922. It was through her friendship with Margaret Anders that Mrs. Greene came to Blue Hill.
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22 Buckshaven is the house of Dr. L. C. Burgess. This land had belonged to E. P. Babson in the early 1900s. A small house, halfway between the road and the shore, was bought by Mrs. William H. Greene at the same time she bought land for Ledgewood Clippings. Dr. Burgess has made extensive addi- tions to the house.
23 Rockwood stands on land which was bought about 1900 by Dunbar Mar- shall, of Longwood, Miss., who built a house later bought by Virginia H. Holden, of New York City-the sister of Mrs. George Cochran and Mrs. Chauncey S. Truax. The property, including Mrs. Holden's lovely gardens, is now owned by Mr. H. Clinch Tate, of Westport, Conn. The adjoining property and bungalow, formerly owned by C. H. Bartlett, Dr. Thomas L. MeDonald, and then Mrs. Holden, was sold to Mr. Tate with the other Holden property.
24 This house, now owned by Mr. Waldo Kellogg, of Derby, Conn., was built by Henry E. Krehbiel, music critic of the New York Tribune. Mr. Krehbiel, who was active in the music life of Blue IIill, had been introduced to the town by the Kneisels.
25 This property formerly belonged to Franz Kneisel, the renowned violinist who was brought to Blue Hill by Bertha J. Tapper. Part of it is now owned by Mr. Durgin Hinekley, and the other part, including the house, belongs to Dr. Richard A. Sears, of Atlanta, Ga.
26 The Moorings, now owned by Mr. Harry Haas, of Haverford, Pa., was built by Theodore Nevin on the former Wulf Fries place. Mr. Nevin took down the Fries' farmhouse at the time this cottage was built further back on the slope.
27 Tapper's Woods, now owned by members of the Rutan family, is still known for an earlier owner, Bertha J. Tapper, a pianist, who was brought to Blue Hill by Wulf Fries, and played an active part in the music eolony.
28 Horatio Parker, Professor of Musie at Yale, bought this land after being introduced to Blue Hill by Franz Kneisel. On it stood a small brown house, which Prof. Parker moved to the shore and remodeled. The house is still owned and occupied by members of the Parker family.
29 Lane's End is now the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence A. Snider and Mr. and Mrs. John F. Bowe, of New York City (formerly of Cleveland, Ohio). The cottage was built for Prof. Henry T. Fowler, of Providence, R. I. (also formerly of Cleveland ) in 1901.
30 Shoreby is now owned by Mr. Jack Woolridge, of Princeton, N. J., and Mr. Homer Heller, of Falls Church, Va. This cottage and Brightly were built for George F. Cochran in 1904 or 1905. Before it was sold to the present owners, Shoreby was rented for many seasons - to Mrs. Richard Quay, Mrs. Frank Rutan and Mrs. Blossom Alcott, among others.
31 Sevenacres was built in 1895 for George F. Cochran, of Baltimore, Md., a friend of the Teagles. The house is now owned by Mr. Paul Starkey, of Princeton, N. J.
32 Ingleside was built in 1895 for James Storer, of Cleveland, Ohio. Later, it was sold to the Whites (of Cleveland) and they, in turn, sold it to Springer Harbaugh. Mrs. Louis Rankin, of Haverford, Pa., Miss Harbaugh's niece, is the present owner.
33 This cottage is also owned by Mrs. Louis Rankin, and was built in 1939. 34 Shoreacre is now owned by Mrs. Walter C. Teagle, of Byram Shore, Conn. The house, first of the summer cottages on Parker Point, was built for Ford H. Rogers, of Detroit, Mich., in 1884. In 1887, Mr. Rogers sold this cottage, which they called "Wild Rose," to John Teagle, of Cleveland, Ohio. Many additions have been made to the building since that time.
35 The large house at the shore, built for Coburn Haskell, is now owned by Mrs. Harry Gerhauser, of Cleveland, Ohio. It replaced "The Maples," built in 1886 by Professor Junius W. Hill, of Boston, and "Oak Lodge" the cot- tage built by Judge John C. Rose, of Baltimore, about 1904.
36 Pansy Cottage is part of the property retained by Coburn Haskell's daughters, Mrs. Ralph Perkins and Mrs. Brigham Britton, of Cleveland, when the remainder of the Haskell place was sold to Harry Gerhauser.
37 Waubeek is owned by Mrs. Paula Dohme, of Baltimore, Md. This cottage was built for Albert W. Johnston, of Cleveland, Ohio, in the early 1900s. Sev- eral alterations were made to the original building. ( Mrs. Dohme is also the owner of the old Augustus Osgood house at the foot of the mountain. )
38 Mossledge, now owned by Mr. William Jones, of Wilmington, Del., was built for Joan J. Robins, a friend of the Hills, in 1888. The cottage, originally called "The Robins Nest," was purchased by Eleanor W. Rose, of Boston, Mass., after Miss Robins' death. Miss Rose and her friend, Miss Lilian Har- mon, occupied the cottage for many summers, changing the name to Moss- ledge before selling it to the present owner.
39 Lappahanink was built in 1892 for James Lusk, of St. Paul, Minn. (Mrs. Lusk was a sister of Virgil P. Kline. ) In the early 1900s, when the Lusks were here, the porch was used frequently for moonlight dances. Sometime prior to 1908, Lappahanink was sold to Vietor O. Strobel, of Philadelphia, Pa. It is still owned by members of his family.
40 Sunset Cliff is now owned by Mr. Alexander H. Carver, of Philadelphia, Pa., who bought it from Aaron S. Thomas, of New York City. This cottage, the fifth to be built on the Point (in 1888), was owned originally by Effie Ober Kline (a direct descendant of Joseph Wood). Mrs. Kline, who had
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spent her girlhood in Blue Hill, became manager of the Boston Idcal Opera Company in 1878, one of the first companies to bring Gilbert and Sullivan to America. While touring the country with the company, she met and married Virgil P. Kline, a Cleveland attorney. It was through her friendship that so many other Cleveland residents came to Blue Hill. Sunset Cliff, which was originally named "La Mascot," was completed in 1888. It was occupied for several summers by the Lusks, of St. Paul, Minn., and by Dr. Frederick A. Merrill, of Boston, Mass.
41 Kerrwood, originally Victor Strobel's barn, was moved down by the shore and remodeled into a cottage by Juliet Kerr. It was later owned by Mrs. Kerr's sister, Ann Warden Baird. The cottage, which now belongs to Mrs. Baird's daughter, Mrs. Katharine D. Potter, has recently been rented by Mr. A. W. Swartz, of Philadelphia, Pa.
42 Seven Oaks is now owned by Mrs. William Haskell of Newton, Mass. This cottage, which was built in 1887 for Mr. IIolman ( Mayo and Townsend werc the builders ), was known in his day as the center of evening entertainments and dances. Later owners were Dr. E. P. Riggs, of St. Paul, Minn., and Coburn Haskell.
43 Winnecowetts, the seventh cottage on the Point, was built in 1892 for W. B. Hosmer, of Boston, Mass., who spent many summers herc with his mother. Later, the house was sold to John Teagle. It is now owned by Mrs. Frank Teagle, of Cleveland, Ohio.
44 The Pines, the third cottage on the Point, was built in 1885 for Benjamin B. Newhall, of Boston, Mass. It was bought in 1911 by Blanche Phillips Weston, of Dayton, Ohio, and is now owned by the Weston Estate.
45 The Log Cabin, on the Inner Bay shore in Sunset Cove, was built in the early 1900s by Walter Rich, a nephew of John Teagle. It is now owned by Mr. William G. Pierce, of Haverford, Pa.
46 Brightly and The Studio were also rented for many summers. Both are now owned by Mr. H. Clinch Tate, of Westport, Conn. The Studio was built about 1904 for Caroline Whittlesey, of Boston, Mass., a friend of Eliza- beth M. Burrall who had built Inwood across Maple Lane several years earlier. This cottage burned in 1930 after ownership transferred to Caroline Baslington.
47 This house, which now belongs to Miss Ethelwynne Hinckley, was built in 1916 for her father, Ward O. Hinckley, of Chicago, Ill., a direct descend- ant of an early settler, Theodore Stevens, and a great-grandson of the Rev. Jonathan Fisher.
48 The Golf Links and the Club House are on the old farm of Charles Col- burn, who came here in 1829 and married Serena Parker. (The land was
part of the Peter Parker grant - which included all of Parker Point and the Kneisel place from the shores of the bay up to South Street. ) The Colburn family moved to Boston in the 1840s, and the place passed into the hands of Jonah Dodge of Sedgwick. Later, the Dodge family moved to the Nathan Ellis place in the village (on the site of the present Town Hall), and the empty Colburn house was taken down after several years.
49 East Home, now owned by Dr. J. S. McCarthy, also stands on part of the original Peter Parker grant. The property was bought some time before 1900 by O. H. Venner, the village jeweler and photographer, who built a small summer cottage on the south side of the cove. This cottage and two others which had been built by Wilford Grindle on the west side of the cove were bought about 1900 by Dr. Allen M. Thomas (brother of Aaron Thomas) of New York. Dr. Thomas took down the Grindle cottages but used the Venner cottage as part of a much larger house. The building was further enlarged by the next owner, Frank Smith, of Cleveland.
50 Bungalow, owned by Mrs. Annette Pyle, is built on the point formerly occupied by the old wharf which was used as the first steamboat landing. 51 The house of Mrs. Beatrice Schandler, of New York City.
52 Parker House, now owned by the heirs of Dr. Frederick A. Merrill, was built about 1820 by Robert Parker (whose wife, Ruth, was a daughter of Joseph Wood ). Frederick Parker, Robert's son, sold the property to Fred A. Fisher. Later, it was bought by Effie O. Kline, who remodelled the home and subsequently sold it to Elizabeth Merrill, her sister.
53 Bonnie Home, owned by Miss Florence B. Coggan, was built by Leonard Clough when he married Mary Jane Wood in 1837. Mr. Clough, who was a shoemaker by trade, also made spars for Blue Hill vessels over a period of forty years. Previous to Miss Coggan, the house was owned by Frank McIntyre.
54 Ideal Lodge stands on the site of a two-story house built by Jedediah Holt. The early building was destroyed by fire about 1835, and a story-and-a- half house replaced it. The second building, owned by Mary P. Ober, was remodelled by her daughter, Mrs. Klinc, in 1885 or 1886. Fifty years later, Mrs. Kline, who had spent that many summers in the house, sold it to the Countess of Eulalia. More recently, it was bought by Mrs. Dorothy W. Hunt of Washington, D. C.
55 Site of the Bluc Hill Inn, built in 1892 by George Stover. Later, it was converted to a summer home by Judge Chauncey Truax, of New York.
56 The home of Mrs. Josephine Kurric, of Philadelphia, Pa., one of the oldest houses in town, was probably built by Robert Johnson in the very early 1800s. Later, it was owned by Isaac ( Ike) Closson, whose heirs sold to George Kurrie.
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57 The house of Miss Winifred P. Merrill, of Bloomington, Ind., was bought by her father soon after 1923 (when she was a student of Franz Kneisel). This old house was owned in early days by Joshua Candage, and later by Tyler Hinckley.
58 The house of Mrs. Gladys Rousseau, of Fairfield, Conn., was bought by Adm. Harry Rousseau about 1920. The original story-and-a-half house had a second story added by Rufus Stover during the mining days.
59 This house, owned by Mrs. Evelyn A. Mann, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was built about 1910 when C. A. Mann bought the place and took down the very old house originally owned by Israel Johnson.
60 Red School House owned by Mr. Norman Nevins, was formerly known as the Beech Hill School, one of the earliest schools in town, mentioned as the meeting place of a Library Society meeting in 1796.
61 Site of the Old Meeting House
62 The old William Darling place was built in the early 1800s and re- modelled in 1847, was bought some years ago by Helen Mackay, and is now owned by her daughter, Mrs. Annette Pyle.
63 Commodore Alexander Henderson, one of the first guests of the Blue Hill Inn, bought the old Tenney place built in the early 1800s on the brow of Tenney Hill, and made considerable changes and additions to the story-and-a- half brick house which was there. After his death, the place was bought by Dr. Donald Sage Mackay, and, more recently, this large house was sold to Mr. James T. Sutherland, of Marblehead, Mass.
64 Hillside was built by Frank Davis, a quarryman, in the 1870s. In the 1930s, his daughter sold the place, which has an uninterrupted view of the bay, to Mrs. Roxa Stover Stacy. Mrs. Stacy made extensive improvements, and later sold the house to Mr. Henry F. Wanning, of Wynnewood, Pa., the present owner.
65 The Elms, long known as the John Stevens House, was built in 1832 by Ilosea Kittredge, a preceptor of the Blue Hill Academy and the husband of Naney Fisher, daughter of the minister. Five years later, when the Kittredges moved West, the house was bought by John Stevens, Sr., who occupied it until his death in 1890. (The front porch was added in 1900.) For several seasons the house was rented by summer residents, until it was bought by Charles Stover, a Blue fill native living in Cambridge, Mass. Later, Mr. Stover's widow sold the house to the present owner, Mrs. Winifred Wootten.
66 Ilalcyon Cottage was built by Samuel Baker in 1822, and bought by Asa Clough, Jr., in 1827. The ell and the barn were added by Asa Clough, Jr., in later years. This house, now occupied by Miss Annie L. Clough, grand- daughter of Asa Clough, is owned by the heirs of George A. Clough.
67 Rowantrees is the home of Miss Adelaide Pearson. Miss Pearson has fur- nished it with treasures from all parts of the world, and has graciously opened it to the Village as a museum and as an invaluable meeting place. By the side, and almost surrounding her house, Miss Pearson has developed the fine Rowantrees Pottery. The beautiful pottery made here is sold all over the United States.
68 The home of Mrs. Elizabeth Graham was built in 1803 ( at that time the land cost $30). It was sold in 1812 to Mathew Ray, and again about 1840, to Varnum Stevens. Later, the house was lived in by Capt. Steven Norton and several other families before being bought in 1890 or thereabout by W. I. Partridge, Blue Hill's druggist for over forty years.
69 The summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Wanning, of Germantown, N. Y., was built by Daniel Spofford about 1800. The place was later bought by Jonah Holt, son of Jedediah Holt. Albina Carter, descendant of another early Blue Hill settler, bought the house from a Mr. Guilford some time after the death of Jonah Holt and his wife (ca. 1865). The Carter family con- tinned to live in the house after Albina's death in 1887, until it was sold to Capt. William W. Peters and his son-in-law, Eugene Hinekley. During their ownership the building was converted to a two-family dwelling, and it re- mained so until recently, when Mr. Wanning purehased it from the Hinekley descendants.
70 The Blue Hill Library.
71 The Congregational Parsonage was built about 1800 by Theodore Stevens, whose third child, Benjamin, married Polly, daughter of Jonathan Fisher. Members of Benjamin Stevens' immediate family continued to live in the homestead until the death of the last of his six children. The house was then given to the Congregational Church by Miss Ethelwynne Hinckley, a great- great-grand-daughter of the builder.
72 The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital.
73 Nurse's Ilome.
74 Mrs. Dorothy R. Austin's house was probably built about 1825 by Stephen Holt ( the fifth son of Jedediah Holt and grandson of Nicholas Holt). After Stephen Holt's death in 1870, his wife and daughter moved to Thomaston, Maine. The house passed through several hands before being bought by Wilford Grindle, whose widow later sold it to the present owner.
75 The Reuben Dodge Farm was built by Reuben, son of Jonah Dodge, one of the first settlers, in 1800. At that time, the road to the Dodge land led from Main Street between the Congregational Church and the Asa Clough, Jr., place to a large stone and log wharf on the shore, used by Reuben Dodge for shipping lumber and extensive ship-building. The farm is still owned by members of the Dodge family.
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76 The home of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Humphrey, another one of the old houses in town, was built early in 1800 by Andrew Witham. The house was later owned by Capt. Steven Norton ( Andrew Witham's son-in-law ), by a shoemaker named Smith and by Maxwell R. Hinckley, who sold it to Mr. Humphrey in 1935.
77 The Farmhouse of Mrs. Paula C. Dohme of Baltimore. This was one of the large pioneer farms in the town. It was owned first by Isaac Osgood and later by his son, Augustus.
78 The summer home of Dr. Fergus Butler of Salem, Mass., was built by Simeon Parker about 1820. The house was bought from the latter by Capt. William Walker, and later occupied by his son-in-law, Henry B. Darling. The Darling heirs sold the house to Daniel Hathaway, whose brother-in-law is the present owner.
79 The house of Capt. Laurence F. Safford of Washington, D.C., was built in 195I.
80 The Cove. Miss Florence Bryant, one of Franz Kneisel's pupils, built this house on part of the original John Peters land grant in 1923.
81 Seven Chimneys, owned by Mrs. Linus Coggan, was built by Lemuel Peters on part of the original John Peters grant. This place, which was later known as the Augustus Peters farm, was bought in 1907 by Marcellus Cog- gan, of Boston, Mass. The front porch and columns were added after that time, and the large brick wing was built by Linus Coggan in 1929.
82 Marcellus Coggan also bought the George Stover place on the point, and later sold it to Frank B. Richards, of Cleveland. Mr. Richards took down the original house and built the large white house farther up the slope - now owned by the heirs of Caroline D. Richards, and called Scribelsby,
83 The house of Mrs. Martha W. Brown, of San Francisco, was built about 1875 for Albert Clay. It has changed ownership many times.
84 Twin Brook Farm, originally part of the John Peters grant, was probably built by Moses Pillsbury ( son of Phineas Pillsbury ), who came to Blue Hill about 1765, and Phebc, granddaughter of Joseph Wood. More recently, the land was bought by Maj. T. P. Walker of Englewood, N. J., and the old house was remodelled to its present form. It is now owned by Mrs. Eugene G. Walker.
85 The home of Mrs. Lucie Rumbough. This house was built during the granite quarry days (1893 or 94) by a quarryman named John Bonin.
86 The home of Mrs. Raymond Carter. The house was built in 1874 by Al- bert M. Carter, Raymond's father.
87 The home of Mr. Douglas S. Byers, of Andover, Mass., was known much earlier as the Allen Wood Farm. I am told that Moses Pillsbury traded the present Twin Brooks Farm for this place. His daughter later married Albert Carter, and their sons Fred and Raymond sold the house to its present owner. Mr. Byers enlarged the house after purchase.
88 The home of Mr. John J. Mackin stands on land which was formerly the property of the White Quarry. In years gone by, the granite was taken from the north side of the road and cutting sheds stood on the south side with the engine house and large dock. The modern house on the shore was built about 1940. More recently, the old engine house was restored and converted to two recreation rooms. A massive old galamanda used in hauling granite, is still on the placc.
89 This house, built by Emily Loring, belongs to Mme. Povla Frijsh, of New York City.
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