字體：小 中 大 |
|
|
|
| 2009/07/23 22:49:19瀏覽1236｜回應8｜推薦40 | |
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.】 有興趣閱讀全文，請點閱： |
|
| ( 心情隨筆｜雜記 ) |
