Going to Extremes
For one Georgetown couple, the best way to preserve their seaside dream home was in pieces.
By Rebecca Martin Evarts, Photography by Brian Vanden Brink
At the tip of Georgetown Island, perched above rock ledges that would have made Winslow Homer drool, sits a home where you can come as close as possible to living on the water without actually being afloat. Constructed on the footprint of a small, winterized mid-twentieth-century cottage, the house takes advantage of the grandfathered site of its predecessor just seventy-five feet from the high-tide mark. The spot had long tantalized one couple as they viewed it from nearby Reid State Park. One happy day in 1989 they finally found the right road leading to the point and, to their delight and amazement, found a 'For Sale' sign hanging on the weathered cottage.
