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« on: August 28, 2009, 04:22:06 AM »


Clingstone, an unusual, 103-year-old mansion in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay, survives through the love and hard work of family and friends.
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« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2009, 04:22:29 AM »


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.
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« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2009, 04:22:47 AM »


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.
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« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2009, 04:23:07 AM »


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.
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« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2009, 04:23:30 AM »


The total cost of the construction, which was completed in 1905, was $36,982.99.
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« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2009, 04:23:52 AM »


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.
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