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Townsend/Davis Cottage |
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Related Records
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2008.001.043 - Digital photograph
Water Street - Just to the north of the Austin estate, and just south of the Sippican Hotel Casino, stood the Townsend / Davis Cottage. This was the summer residence of Philadelphia newspaperman Clark Davis and his wife Rebecca Harding Davis, a noted writer of the Realist School. During the 1880s, Clark Davis, Richard Watson Gilder, and President Grover Cleveland spent countless hours on the water together fishing. Gilder also published some of R...
Record Type: Photo
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2008.001.095 - Digital photograph
Shoreline - The gracefully curved seawall shown here created a level seaside garden for the Townsend / Davis Cottage near 81 Water Street. Beyond it is a walkway over the salt marsh to the Davis float. Beyond that spindly structure is the more substantial pier belonging to the Herbert Austin estate. In the distance across the mouth of the harbor are Little and Ram islands. The stone barge with derrick at right was a common fixture in the harbor a...
Record Type: Photo
