Set on eight acres, with a swimming pool and tennis court, the property also includes a two-story stucco and brick cottage designed for the decorators' event by Massimiliano Gargiulo, a master cabinet maker from Islip.
Among other things, it has 31 cottages designed for independent living and rented at market rate, as well as a dementia center and a nursing home, on 36 acres.
A stone cottage designed by President Roosevelt for his retirement was bought in 1996 by the Open Space Institute, a land conservation group, for $750,000.
In Hollywood I have a 1927 little English cottage designed by an art director.
Marianne Cusato, a New York architect, has won the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum's People's Design Award for her Hurricane Katrina Cottage, designed as an alternative to the trailers supplied by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
This is the case for two retirees, Gail Conti and her husband, Tom, of Rockledge, Fla. Attracted to a charming porch, pastel hues and compact size, they hope to buy a 308-square-foot Katrina Cottage, originally designed for hurricane relief by Cusato Cottages, when Lowe's stores begin selling them this year.
The new quarters, 4 buildings known as cottages, designed to accomodate no more than 34 girls in a homelike atmosphere, would supplement 2 cottages that had been in operation for 20 yrs.
Architectural House Plans (www.architecturalhouseplans.com; 888-388-5735) sells 250 designs from various architects from around the country, including lake houses, cottages and houses designed for energy efficiency.
The cottages have been designed for senior musicians who flock to the college from around the world for six weeks each summer, to participate in the Marlboro Music Festival.
Renovated by new owners in 2007, 60 beach-chic rooms and seven cottages surround a pool area and garden designed for lounging on cushioned platforms.
Enjoy a stroll through the narrow streets lined with colourful cottages or should you wish, take a relaxing boat ride on a colourful moliceiro, the gondola-like boat originally designed for harvesting seaweed.
