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Crosby
Mansion
Item # 64
Watercolor
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| Details |
| Location: |
Brewster,
Cape Cod, MA |
| Description: |
In
1872 when 49-year-old Albert Crosby returned to Cape Cod after
making a bundle of money in Chicago, he brought with him his
new 28-year-old wife, Matilda, and built this showplace for
her in 1888.
Albert may have had a way with money, but he was no architect.
he tried at first to build a mansion inside the four-room cottage
in which he grew up. Then, realizing it wouldn't fit, Crosby
built the showplace outside it, around the little house. On
Crosby Lane in Brewster, the old cottage is still there, deep
inside the mansion, but Crosby and his wife are long gone. Over
the years the mansion became a residence, an art gallery, a
derelict, a conservatory of music, a restaurant, and a camp
for overweight girls. The mansion is now owned by the State
of Massachusetts as part of its parks system, and a group called
Friends of the Crosby Mansion is raising money to restore
it.
This setting has become popular for weddings and receptions.
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| Print
Size: |
9.5"
x 13.5" (16" x 20" matted) |
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