海上的房子
2009/07/23 22:49
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女兒喜歡古屋，老房子 。
她 Mail 給我一棟位於海上的房子的圖文，是由 N.YTIMES傳訊出來的。
Clingstone, an unusual, 103-year-old mansion in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, survives through the love and hard work of family and friends.
Henry Wood, the owner, runs the house like a camp: all skilled workers welcome.
The Jamestown Boatyard hauls the family's boats and floating dock and stores
them each winter in return for a week's use of the house in the summer.
Mr. Wood, a 79-year-old Boston architect, bought the house with his ex-wife Joan
in 1961 for $3,600. It had been empty for two decades.
Clingstone had been built by a distant cousin, J.S. Lovering Wharton. Mr. Wharton
worked with an artist, William Trost Richards, to create a house of picture windows
with 23 rooms on three stories radiating off a vast central hall.
The total cost of the construction, which was completed in 1905, was
$36,982.99.
An early sketch of the house. Mr. Wood is as proud as any parent of his house,
and keeps a fat scrapbook of photographs and newspaper clippings that document
its best moments. Many of the historic photos he has were provided by the company
that insured the house for its original owners.
Many of the historic photos he has were provided by the company that insured the house for its original owners.
The Newport Bridge is visible from the windows of the Ping-Pong room, to the left of the fireplace.
The house is maintained by an ingenious method: the Clingstone work weekend. Held every year around Memorial Day, it brings 70 or so friends and Clingstone lovers together to tackle jobs like washing all 65 of the windows. Anne Tait, who is married to Mr. Wood's son Dan, refinished the kitchen floor on one of her first work weekends.
There are 10 bedrooms at Clingstone, all with indecently beautiful views.
The dining room table seats 14. Refinishing the chairs is a task on the list for a future work weekend.
A sign by the ladder that leads to the roof reads: No entry after three drinks or 86 years of age. "It used to say 80 but we had a guy on a work weekend who was 84, so I changed it," said Mr. Wood, ever the realist. It would have been a shame to curtail the activities of a willing volunteer.
No lawn, no neighbors, no solicitors, no busy streets!
我知道對有些人，這是一棟很有趣的【Dream House】。
我告訴女兒：【我只想上去看看，最多住一晚，若把它當住家， No Way!】
太麻煩，須要太多照顧了！
女兒也說：【It is absolutely beautiful there though! But, I do love that I don't have to maintain it.】
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8樓. JamieChao2010/07/11 02:39漂亮的夢想屋
又漂亮又酷！但是突然想要出外買零食，可就辛苦囉~
7樓. Nature Lily2009/09/08 16:57欣賞就好
一群人去那裡開同學會,應該不錯.不過,小說裏面如果出現這樣的場景,一定有很特別的故事.
6樓. Heuristic2009/08/22 12:27不踏實的感覺
我有不踏實的感覺，參觀可以，住一夜也不想。
5樓. behappy2009/07/26 23:16我是膽小鬼
恐怖影集看多了.除非有一堆人,我可是不敢住在孤伶伶的島.
4樓. 牛仔3號2009/07/25 10:19What a retreat place
擁有天堂就要有勞動
其實成為volunteer worker並可以享受住幾天也不錯的主意
擁有一座島和擁有一座房子心情還是不同
3樓. Ricardo2009/07/25 10:04海上的房子
I love this house. 可以看書寫作聽音樂,完全遠離吵雜都會. 很有電影 The Lake House的感覺.我相信很多人，都愛死它了！
No lawn, no neighbors, no solicitors, no busy streets!
確實是看書 寫作 聽音樂的好地方。
Bundy 於 2009/07/25 11:03回覆
2樓.2009/07/25 03:20美美的老房子
當我正沉醉在這美美的老房子照片時
你的最後一句話真點醒了我的夢
維持這樣的老房子真的很麻煩
所以....看看就好
1樓. 客居矽谷人2009/07/24 07:49海上的房子
真的好美
