A Bayside Bungalow 
A $500 House on a $10,000 Field 
By DANIEL H. OVERTON 
T HE bay beside which our bungalow is built is 
Southold Harbor, a beautiful branch of 
Little Become Bay, at the eastern end of 
Long Island. The site is a four acre held, on the 
shore front of Southold village, the oldest settlement 
on Long Island. The held is on a terraced bluff 
about twenty-hve feet above the water, and is sur¬ 
rounded by four rows of cottonwood, elm, and maple 
trees, set out by the owner nearly thirty years ago. 
The owner happens to be my wife’s father, and that 
is why we have the use of this large and beautiful 
held. The only other building on the four acres is 
another bungalow, an old workshop, which was 
moved over from an abandoned lumber yard, and 
converted into our first attempt at a bayside bunga¬ 
low. We enjoyed this first building so much as a 
partnership affair that it led to the building of 
another so that each of the two sister-families in the 
partnership might have a summer camp upon the 
held. 
These two cabins now nestle side by side beneath 
the cottonwood trees. We call the older one “ The 
Bluff House,” and the new one “ The Cotton¬ 
wood,” which 1 now describe. 
The “Cottonwood ” is a one-story frame building 
set on a foundation of locust posts. It is fourteen 
feet wide, and thirty feet long, with an extension on 
the rear six by sixteen feet. The sides are eight feet 
high from the floor to the rafter plate except m the 
back of the extension which is only six feet. 1 he 
roof is of cedar shingles, and has a rise of five feet 
above the level of the rafter plates. The sides are 
covered by the best white pine, six inches wide, and 
the floor is of six inch spruce. There are thirteen 
windows, thirty-three by thirty-four inches, in the 
building. These are thirty-four inches above tbe 
floor, giving a splendid view seaward or shore¬ 
ward as one sits or stands inside. There are large 
double doors at the front, and two single doors at 
the back. 
The furnishings are simple and plain, and cost 
$92.85. The whole cost of the building was as 
follows: 
Lumber, including the locust posts for the foundation, $197 70 
Carpenter work, - - - - -43 50 
Hardware, - - - - - 3 2 7 
Sash, - - - - - - -1215 
Screen doors, - - - - - 5 56 
Table in kitchen, and desk in living-room, stationary, 8 00 
Chimney, brick, mortar, and mason work, - - 36 30 
Paint and painting, putty and oil, - - - 14 00 
One driven well, and pitcher pump, - 10 00 
Labor of man, and cartage of lumber, - - 15 83 
Total, ------- $346 31 
1 he interior is divided into four rooms, one large 
living-room fourteen by twenty-two feet, two bed¬ 
rooms eight by ten feet, and the kitchen in the 
extension six by eight feet. In the west end of the 
living-room is an open fireplace forty-one inches 
wide, thirty-one inches high, and sixteen inches 
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