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RE BREEZE 
Jan. 26, 1917. 
We are offering an unusual collection of 
PERENNIAL PLANTS 
And a choice lot of Conifers. 
NORTH SHORE NURSERIES & FLORIST CO., Beverly Farms 
F. E. COLE, Prop. 
Telephone, Beverly Farms 43 
We shall be better prepared than usual to store plants for the winter. 
New Summer Residences For Cape Ann Resorts 
AST GLOUCESTER.—A great building boom invol- 
ing an expenditure of more than a quarter of a million 
doliars is the early-year addition to the growth of East 
Gloucester as a summer resort. It is expected that con- 
tracts will be awarded for many houses of a pretentious 
type to be erected on other lots purchased in the lovely 
and picturesque sections of Eastern Point and Bass Rocks. 
Aside from the $50,000 mansion at Grape Vine Cove, 
which was started during the summer, for Jacob L. Loose, 
of the cracker firm of Loose-Wiles Company, of Kansas 
City, Mo., and is nearly completed, other houses of artis- 
tic lines are looming up on the landscape. 
ACTIVITY AT GRAPE VINE GOVE 
The biggest deal in the Grape Vine Cove section is 
the purchase of 25 acres by W. Jay Little. Mr. Little 
has purchased for investment. Three fine houses are 
being erected on the lots and later on, Mr. Little expects 
to have a $35,000 residence built on a choice lot of the 
property for himself. A fourth house is now being built 
for Mr. Little on his property at the corner of Bemo and 
St. Louis avenues, Eastern Point, near the Niles pond. 
The contract for the houses now under construction was 
awarded to Harry M. Boutell of Gloucester and the stone- 
work to J. S. Pomeroy Co. The Little houses were de- 
signed by the H. M. Hanson house of Gloucester and are 
of attractive English architectural lines. The house near- 
est to completion is situated on Atlantic road, opposite 
the new Loose mansion, at Grape Vine Cove. On the first 
floor are the living room, 26 by 28 feet with a large fire- 
place ; dining room, 15 by 17 feet; logia and dining porches 
enclosed and tiled; veranda and terrace, 50 by 12 feet, ex- 
tending at the front and side of the house. Then there are 
the maids’ dining room, kitchen and pantry. In the 
basement are the boiler and laundry rooms. On the 
second floor are seven large master chambers and three 
bath rooms. On the third floor are three maids’ dormi- 
tories, nursery and maids’ baths. The house will have 
brown roof and brown trimmings, cream shingles and 
sash. The other two houses being erected in this section 
for Mr. Little are located on Grape Vine road, the road 
connecting the long shore boulevard with Eastern Point 
road. It is planned to have the exterior finish of the 
houses of especially attractive color combination. The 
first Grape Vine road house will have a red roof, sage 
green trimmings and cream walls. The second Grape 
Vine road house will have the Cabot brown stains for 
the walls and roof, with cream trimmings and sash. The 
Eastern Point cottage will have a green roof, cream body 
and sage green trimmings. 
Up along Grape Vine road and near the first cottage 
in this section, that of Elizabeth Stuart (Phelps) Ward, 
the late authoress, is to be erected a picturesque colonial 
farm house for M. F. Chase, a manufacturing chemist 
of St. Louis, who purchased a choice site for the house, 
in the orchard belonging to the Patch estate. Ezra L. 
Phillips, the architect, of Gloucester, drew the attractive 
plans. EE. S. Griffin is the building contractor and L,. E. 
wmith, another Gloucester firm, will install the heating 
plant. The Chase house will have wide white clapboard- 
ing, with green blinds and huge chimney. The house 
will have ten large rooms, besides the baths, linen rooms, 
big halls and porches. The structure will be completed 
for occupancy the first of June. 
Otp ENcLIsH '‘CountTRY Housk For LEDGE Roap 
Up along Ledge road, the exclusive hilly section, and 
the stretch connecting Grape Vine road and Mt. Pleasant 
avenue a house, expected to be one of the most pictur- 
esque in architectual lines in the colony, will be erected 
immediately for the Misses Elizabeth and Grace M. 
Spalding of Brookline. The architect is H. M. Hanson 
of Gloucester. The house will be an old English country 
house design with its delightful small paned windows, 
quaint English benches, flower ledge bays, big chimneys 
and chimney pots, and other picturesque features. A 
comfortable studio, 26 by 16 feet with a height of the 
two stories on the north side, wil! be a feature. Miss 
Grace Spalding is interested in painting. The cottage 
will be finished in stucco and brick, with a slate roof. It 
will be completed for occupancy by June 15. The house 
will have hot water heat and the Spalding family expects 
to remain in East Gloucester late each season, in fact, the 
place will be practically the permanent residence of the 
Spaldings. 
The most expensive house in the Ledge lane section 
is the stone mansion nearing completion for H. M. At- 
wood and wife, of Boston. This house, costing approxi- 
mately $50,000, with its studio “The Moors,” designed 
by Ralph Adams Cram, the noted cathedral architect, will 
be one of the finest estates on the North Shore. The resi- 
dence will have every convenience possible in modern 
house construction. The structure was started last sea- 
son, as before mentioned in the BrrEzE, although it will 
be several months before it is finished. 
In the Eastern Point colony, alterations and additions 
to the estate of John H. Procter of Brookline, situated 
‘near the John Clay estate, makes the Procter house prac- 
tically a new one. An expenditure of over $10,000 is 
being made. The plans were drawn by Ezra L. Phillips, 
architect, of Gloucester. Benjamin ‘C. Clark is the build- 
ing contractor and L. E. Andrews is doing the plumbing. 
A garage is being built and this will have accommodations 
for two men on the second floor. 
