got an email earlier. absolutley found my dream house.
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.
The total cost of the construction, which was completed in 1905, was $36,982.99.
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.
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."
I dunno about all of the other madjackers, but no lawn to mow, no neighbors, no solicitors, no busy streets, and no traffic!!! My kind of get-away!!
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.
The total cost of the construction, which was completed in 1905, was $36,982.99.
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.
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."
I dunno about all of the other madjackers, but no lawn to mow, no neighbors, no solicitors, no busy streets, and no traffic!!! My kind of get-away!!
