Cottages

Holden

The Holden cottage on Priscilla Road was built by Albert C. Holden, father of current owner Stanley Holden. In 1950 Albert bought the lot for $500. For a cottage, he dismantled a one-room camp off the side of Airport Hill in Worcester overlooking Coes Pond. He redesigned it into a three-room cottage and loaded the bits and pieces onto a small trailer and carted it to Nauset Heights that summer.

Albert, who’s hobby was woodturning also made all of the wooden furniture, the beds, and the kitchen cabinets. The kitchen is finished in knotty pine. Much of the lumber in the cottage Albert helped fell and [Read more …]

By Grayson Strickler|

Farnham “Cottage A”

Our house is named Tred-y-Noch which means house on the hill in Welch. My grandparents Owensville and Mary Farnham picked out two one quarter-acre lots in 1899 while on their honeymoon and built a cottage by 1901. During the years improvements were made that included dormers, a hand-dug cellar, a sleeping porch, and in 1940 a new two-car garage with a sleeping loft on top. In 1950 my father Bill Sr. became the new steward of the house and added another dormer, and in the 1960’s he bought cottage B from the Callanan’s. This added another four lots of land. In 1972 Bill Jr. took over the stewardship and [Read more …]

By Grayson Strickler|

Farnham “Cottage B”

Cottage B was the first Callanan house built on Nauset heights by Francis Callanan, Nancy Callanan Barker’s grandfather. The Kenna house was also built by Francis Callanan. My grandfather, Onsville Farnham introduced his good friend from Boston, Francis Callanan to Nauset Heights at the turn of the century. Cottage B was then built-in 1903. In the early 1960s, my father, William Farnham Sr bought Cottage B from Dr. Sampson Callanan’s two children, Paul Callanan, and Lotta Callanan Doherty. Since the early 1970’s my sister’s, Betsey Blair and Polly Meadows and myself, have enjoyed raising our families there in the summers and now our children are doing the same!

By Grayson Strickler|

Cunningham “Bennett House”

The Cunningham family now enjoys the enormous pleasure of the “Bennett House”, having purchased the home in May 1992 from the Fiske Rollins estate. In that context, the history below is a scant beginning to what we hope will become over time a rich recitation of the Bennett House’s and occupants’ contribution to the history and lore of the Heights.

It all begins somewhere between the drawing of the “Nauset Inlet Hight’s (sic)” plan, surveyed by Tulley Crosby of Brewster, MA. in 1900; and the Arthur L Sparrow plot plan of “Nauset Harbor Heights”, drawn up [Read more …]

By Grayson Strickler|

Shaunnasey “Dune View”

The ‘Dune View’ cottage at 90 Nauset Heights Rd was built in the 1930s by a local man by the name of Simeon Atwood. The cottage was bought in 1939 by the Condon family of North Attleboro, Massachusetts. The original house had a separate structure behind the house which included an outhouse and a garage. The indoor bathroom was added before the Condon family bought the house. The cottage is truly a summer cottage as it has never been winterized. The outhouse and garage were demolished in 2005 to accommodate a new septic system.

Mahaney “The Big Cottage”

We call our home (7 Doane Way) “ The Big Cottage” or “The Barnes Cottage” and that’s because our parents Ellen & Jack Mahaney are next door in their home known as “The Little Cottage” and/or “My Fair lady.” In 1963 my parents rented a cottage on the Heights for a two-week family vacation. It was called “The Salt Box” and the “Yoke” which is on the corner of Iyanough and Nauset Heights Road and now owned by Jan Smith. That first summer we drove as a family (Mom and Dad and 4 little kids) from Waterbury, CT to our first ever Nauset Heights family vacation.