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- LuMPyPussy - 07-20-2009
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.
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.
The total cost of the construction, which was completed in 1905, was
36,982.99
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.
The Newport Bridge is visible from the windows of the Ping-Pong room, to the
left of the fireplace.
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. Anne Tait, who is married to Mr. Wood's son Dan, refinished the
kitchen floor on one of her first work weekends.
There are 10 bedrooms at Clingstone, all with indecently beautiful views.
The dining room table seats 14. Refinishing the chairs is a task on the
list for a future work weekend.
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.
No lawn, no neighbors, no solicitors, no busy streets!
- LuMPyPussy - 07-20-2009
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- Lady Cop - 07-20-2009
that is FABULOUS!!!
- Maggot - 07-20-2009
I LOVE that house!!!!
- Liquid - 07-20-2009
they would be the first to die in a tidal wave.
- Maggot - 07-20-2009
I would be the winner!!! First place!!!!::banana::
- Mock2zuma - 07-21-2009
Just as long as they get internet access, I'd love to live on something like that.
- LuMPyPussy - 07-21-2009
It'd be safe from zombie attack.
- Mock2zuma - 07-21-2009
LuMPyPussy Wrote:It'd be safe from zombie attack.:shock::shock::shock:
You are absolutely RIGHT!!!
::fuckyeah::
That's it, I'm moving ::sly::
- Middle Finger - 07-21-2009
I'd definitely get stoned there.
- Lady Cop - 07-21-2009
Middle Finger Wrote:I'd definitely get stoned there.
well there's a shock. :shock:
i can see you falling overboard! ::pots::::lmao::
- Middle Finger - 07-21-2009
That long dining room table with the great views would make a great spot for breaking open garlic crabs!
- The Antagonist - 07-21-2009
You ain't kidding.
I got my double bucket ordered for tonight. Pickup at 7 PM.
We tried for them for Friday, Saturday and Sunday to no avail. Pre-ordered them last night for today.
- BROTHER - 07-21-2009
The Antagonist Wrote:You ain't kidding.::blink:
I got my double bucket ordered for tonight. Pickup at 7 PM.
We tried for them for Friday, Saturday and Sunday to no avail. Pre-ordered them last night for today.
o are they any good? (I looked on u-tube)
- The Antagonist - 07-21-2009
I don't think you'll find them on YouTube.
They're awful. I spend $100 on dinner to eat awful shitty food.
- BROTHER - 07-21-2009
The Antagonist Wrote:I don't think you'll find them on YouTube.
They're awful. I spend $100 on dinner to eat awful shitty food.
yeah they are on "u-tube", people were ragging on some guy.and his....I have no idea how they are served. (origin).....its just you and Frank have mentioned newspapers being spread out.... $100-00 is nothing for shitty food (here in Calif. )
I was just wondering.:
:- The Antagonist - 07-21-2009
Anytime you eat seafood like crabs by the bucket-full it's a very messy ordeal. There is a ton of butter that winds up everywhere and shells and what not.
I usually spread a plastic cover, then newspaper over that.
With garlic crabs you don't even need the butter - the garlic and other seasonings are enough to make them divine.
- BROTHER - 07-21-2009
The Antagonist Wrote:Anytime you eat seafood like crabs by the bucket-full it's a very messy ordeal. There is a ton of butter that winds up everywhere and shells and what not.I want some. Is it an Italian thing?
I usually spread a plastic cover, then newspaper over that.
With garlic crabs you don't even need the butter - the garlic and other seasonings are enough to make them divine.
- Duchess - 07-21-2009
I'm jonesin' for some shrimps after reading all that.
- BROTHER - 07-21-2009
Duchess Wrote:I'm jonesin' for some shrimps after reading all that.Little is good:kiss:: (I suppose)