Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt recounts returning for one last stay with his wife and children in this stunning memoir that was a National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries,...

In 1876, wealthy Bostonian Pierson Beebe chose a secluded hill in Falmouth, Massachusetts, as the spot to build his summer cottage, Highfield Hall. The following year, his brother James Arthur Beebe began construction next door on his own mansion, Tanglewood. The Beebe Woods and the surrounding buildings do not simply belong to the history of one wealthy Boston family. Rather, the land that they preserved, the architecture they created and the cultural...

Chatham photographer Christopher Seufert's journal of his 3-week stay in the wilderness of the dune shacks at the Cape Cod National Seashore on the Atlantic coast of Massachusetts includes a DVD video tour.

"This book attempts to tell part of a mostly untold story about the way of life, past and present, of families living in dune shacks on the backshore of the Cape Cod towns of Provincetown and Truro." -- Introduction

A group of bohemian designers, inspired by European modern architecture, built houses on Cape Cod that married principles of the Bauhaus school to centuries-old local architecture. The establishment of the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1959 meant that homes built after 1959 became the property of the park on the death of the owners. This film examines the impact of the park's eminent domain on the people whose houses would have to be given to the...