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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 13 
New Cottages and Improvements on the North Shore 
By Charles E, Alexander in the Boston Transcript 
Building operations since last summer and fall at the 
various resorts making up the section familiarly known as the 
North Shore have been largely confined to the finishing of houses 
which were begun at this time last year, or even later, such as 
the residence of Philip Dexter and of Robert L. Raymond, at 
Manchester; that for Mrs. Lucius Manlius Sargent at Pride’s 
Crossing and Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter at Beverly Farms, and the 
completion of the big house at Ipswich for R, T. Crane, Jr., of 
Chicago, also the Herbert M. Mason residence in Ipswich, is 
perhaps the more important work. At various places the re- 
modelling and like improvement of places has been general, 
with excellent results in making the houses and their surround- 
ing grounds far more attractive than heretofore. 
BEVERLY AND MONTSERRAT 
Important changes have been made at ‘‘Cove Hill,’’ Beverly 
Cove, which is the summer residence of Ellis L. Dresel and Miss 
Louisa Dyresel of Beacon street. A part of the former house 
bas been retained, largely from a point of sentiment beeause 
of long associations, but it has been remodelled to form a part 
of the new main portion of the house built from plans by John 
Lavalle of this city. In the older part which has been re- 
tained, the remodelling gives an attractive library with a heavy 
beamed ceiling, a parlor, a den and a screened porch having a 
pergola top. In the new part there is a dining-room about 25 
by 18 feet in dimensions with walls panelled and circular at 
both ends, one of which shows a deep fireplace flanked by 
little cupboards. The opposite end forms a big circular window. 
An adjoining breakfast room with latticed walls, Italian fashion, 
opens upon an outer platform. The hall is spacious and in this 
the stairs have been placed inconspicuously at one end. On the 
front elevation the exterior shows the entrance marked by 
fluted pilasters and a portico, the balustraded roof of which is 
supported by columns with ornamental caps. Above the portico 
is a paladian window of ornate design, others of which also 
are features of this front elevation. The roof of this new 
p.ain portion is square, of the deck type, with fine balustrade. 
The original part has a hip roof. On the south side there is a 
spacious piazza, with ornamental balustrade, and the roof is 
pergola in effect. Steps to a lower level carry out the general 
finish of the piazza as to balustrade, etc. The exterior finish 
is of plaster, in a soft white color. The ground work includes 
plastered high walls wtih conercte caps to mark the driveway 
inclosure. The plans by Mr. Lavalle were carried out by A. 
Hathaway & Sons of Boston. 
Recent improvement of the house at ‘‘Bee Rock,’’ the 
Summer residence of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Norman at Beverly 
Cove, has included enlargement of the living-room and also the 
dining-room, with some changes, also, in the hall, and in various 
ways the comfort of the owners will be greater than before. 
Tie changes were planned by Bigelow & Wadsworth. 
Silsbee Cottage Remodelled. 
Changes made in the residence of Miss Katharine E. Silsbee, 
at Beverly Cove, will give her many advantages beyond those 
previously enjoyed. The remodelling has been done from plans 
hy J. Ambrose Walker of this city, and provides a greatly en- 
larged hall, gained by removal of partitions and inelusion of a 
furmer small library to give the required space. The hall has 
a beamed and panelled ceiling and also a panelled dado, the 
woodwork finished in white. Stairs occupy a central position 
at one end. The floor is of red tiles. The hall has an ample 
fireplace. A new library has been built as a wing and is 
provided with a deep bay window and a good fireplace. Other 
changes are new rooms and a bath for the use of servants. 
The changes have been carried out by L. J. Geoffrion of Wal- 
tnam, and Connolly Bros., of Beverly Farms. <A little more than 
a year ago, it may be recalled, Miss Silsbee had built on her 
plece, from Mr. Walker’s plans, a new stable of attractive 
appearance, a gardener’s cottage, equally so, and a cow barn. 
Fine Gardens for ‘‘Dawson Hall’’ 
Removal of the oldtime Stetson cottage, as it long was 
known, on Mrs. R. D. Evans’s estate at Beverly Cove, and 
which more recently has been called the ‘‘Summer White House’’ 
because of occupancy by President Taft and his family, was the 
first step in general improvement of the Evans property to 
make more attractive the surroundings of ‘‘Dawson Hall’’ as 
the house there is called. The Stetson cottage was removed in 
sections on lighters across the harbor from Beverly to Marble- 
kead, where it is to occupy a new site on Peach’s Point. The 
stable, built originally for the use of the occupants of the 
cottage, likewise is removed to carry out Mrs. Evans’s plans. 
From her own cottage she will now obtain an unobstructed 
water view which is widesweeping. Plans have been prepared 
by the Boston architects, Allen & Collins, for.a large garden 
of English type with many beds for flowers of the old-fashioned 
varieties, especially, with arbors, trellises, a tea house, a basin 
as a central feature and other attractions, all of which had been 
impossible when the cottage now removed stood on its original 
site. The Stetson cottage is to be made whole in its new 
pesition on Peach’s Point, yet will not be materially changed 
frcm its former condition. A garage is to be built 
however, for use of the occupants of the house. 
‘*Paramatta’’ the Summer White House 
‘*Paramatta,’’? the Montserrat estate of Mrs. Henry W. 
Peabody, which is to be the ‘‘Summer White House’’ this 
season, has undergone changes to adapt the house to the re- 
quirements of President Taft and his family, who are to occupy 
it. The most notable change is the building of a porte-cochere 
and new entrance to that part of the house which is set apart 
for use as executive offices and which now may 
independently of the main part, or family rooms. A convenient 
new reception room has been gained by the alterations, which 
rave been made from plans by Edwin K. Blaikie, the Boston 
architect who planned Mrs. Peabody’s house which was built 
last summer on the highlands at Montserrat, overlooking the 
little railroad station, and whieh she occupies. 
New Houses Near Beaver Pond 
On a private way running from Essex road to Dodge street, 
it the Beaver Pond section of Beverly, two new houses are 
found this both representing the work of a Boston 
architect, Amos A. . Lawrence. 
near it, 
be reached 
season, 
One is his own house, which 
he has built for a home, and the other is for John W. Cutler, 
whose marriage to Miss Emily Rosalind Fish took place at 
Garrison-on-the-Hudson, New York, the latter part of last Octo- 
ber. These houses are situated about three-quarters of a mile 
from the two main highways. 
Mr. Lawrence’s house is long and picturesque in its natural 
setting, with surrounding trees. It is of three stories with 
pitched roof, slated, and of brick and stucco exterior finish. 
It is of English type, with its leaded casement windows, its 
high English bay in the living-room its spandrel-arched doorway 
and its big outside chimneys. The entrance hall is modest in 
size and from it the dining-room leads. This room has a 
notably good fireplace showing carved oak panels above. Be- 
