MVCMA - 2011 Cottage Tour

COTTAGE TOUR - 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Tour Homes: 10 am - 3 pm
(last tickets sold at 2 pm)
$25 per person

To Benefit the Tabernacle Restoration Fund

* * * Refreshments are included with admission * * *

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53 Trinity Park - "Small Frey"

Walter Frey has owned his 1870 campground cottage for 41 years. The gingerbread is linear and angled, rather than the ornate scrollwork found on many of the cottages. The double doors and windows are square, rather than round or Gothic. Walter’s mother-in-law spent many happy summers as a campground resident, and as a memorial to her, Walter and his late wife, Beryl, planted a memorial garden across Trinity Park from their cottage in the early 90’s. Flowers for the Sunday Tabernacle services often are cut from this garden.

47 Trinity Park -- "This is Summer"

Amy Potter has owned her 1867 cottage for 28 years. It was named by her 2 year old granddaughter who, when arriving at the cottage soon after it was purchased, announced that “this is summer”, and the name stuck. It is actually two cottages attached side-by-side, with the one on the right offset from the main cottage on the left. The house has original features inside and out: tongue and groove boards, Gothic windows with cranberry glass inserts, and two sets of double Gothic entry doors. One set opens into the living room and the other opens into the first floor bedroom, which is part of the second house. The unique filigree cutouts, which appear under the porch railings, were originally a part of the Fraser House, a guest house formerly located near the Parish House of Trinity Methodist Church.

45 Trinity Park

Award winning children’s author Richard Michelson (Busing Brewster and a new book, Lipman Pike) and his wife, Jennifer, purchased their campground cottage in 2008. It is one of the few campground cottages that is fully winterized, but it was done from the inside so all the original outside features are intact. An early photo on the wall of the great room shows that this 1878 cottage was a rooming house in the years after it was built. The great room contains an interesting roll-top hutch, which has been in the cottage for some time. The former owners fully renovated the cottage, including their big splurge, an apron-front sink with a colorful design including fruits and vegetables, chickens, and leaves, surrounded by geometric patterns. The Michelsons have made changes of their own, including a new second floor porch and a luxurious outdoor shower.

43 Trinity Park - The Moore Cottage

The Moore Cottage, built in 1872, is one of only a handful of cottages in the campground still occupied by family members of the original owner. Joann Maitland, a 6^th generation descendent of Phoebe Moore, owns the cottage along with her husband, Mike. Two 19^th century photos show that the cottage is original except for the one-story shed in the back. An unusual diamond-shape window on the second floor makes the house easy to identify in photos. Because the cottage has remained in one family, there are many original artifacts and pieces of furniture are still present. They include a Fairy Crawford Stove that was used for heat and cooking until 1992, several chairs, a working Victrola, and several lamps.

28 Trinity Park

The Desautelle cottage was purchased almost thirty years ago and is one of the larger homes in the campground. It is owned by Bill and Rachel Desautelle and was built in 1871 by the Ripley Brothers-- shipwrights who became homebuilders after the whaling business declined in Edgartown. When viewed from the air, the cottage is shaped like a cross and is actually three houses put together. The living room was the original house; two halves of an adjacent cottage were added to each side; a third cottage became the kitchen, and an outhouse became the present laundry and bathroom. The additions are easily recognized when one looks at the directions of the boards in the ceiling of each room. There is an elegant mahogany fireplace in the living room and a beautifully restored 1936 Universal Electric stove in the kitchen that is still used for cooking. The sunroom in the back of the house has a view of the harbor.

15 Fourth Avenue - The Dog House

This cottage, built in 1871, has been owned by a member of the same family for 50 years, and has an interesting history. Ann Ganz purchased the cottage from the niece of the Lucy and Sarah Adams. The Adams sisters were Little People who toured the country with the Barnum and Bailey Circus and the General Tom Thumb Company in the late 19^th century. One remnant of their residence remains today—a small claw foot tub in the bathroom. Because the cottage exterior is covered with ornate shingles and elaborate gingerbread, it is an excellent example of carpenter gothic construction. The upstairs porch and dormers are decorative as well, and include cut-outs of dogs, which are painted to match the pets of Holly Ganz, and her husband, Carlton Osborne, who own the cottage along with Holly’s mother, Anne.

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Gardens at 34 Trinity Park

A beautiful cottage garden is lovingly tended by the owners, Ellen and Ron Descheneaux. The garden includes a mixture of annuals, perennials, herbs, and vegetables. The garden contains both sun and shade plants, as well as multiple colors of hydrangeas. It is indeed an idyllic sanctuary!

Trinity Methodist Church

The historic Trinity Methodist Church was built in 1878, one year before the Tabernacle. It was restored in 2001 to its original Victorian appearance. The beloved chimes that ring everyday from the tower are a longtime campground tradition.

Cottage Museum

The Cottage Museum