Seven houses, ranging in style from Flemish villa to Arts and Crafts cottage to classic Colonial, are listed for sale at asking prices between $1.65 million and $3.4 million.
His house and painting studio overlooking the Hudson, an Arts and Crafts cottage that he designed, was one of his life's other great passions.
As the story goes, this Arts and Crafts cottage was built in 1911 by the wife of a farmer from Woodland, Calif.
In addition to beaches, vistas and parks, they found Gothic and Victorian "painted ladies," quaint Arts and Crafts cottages, and good schools.
They have a Main Street feel, with Arts and Crafts cottages sharing the winding lanes with loft-style town houses and sleek modern boxes.
Four miles outside the city centre, it was a paradise of arts and crafts cottages, with optional cricket and free dentistry.
There are a few Arts and Crafts cottages, like mine, which was built in 1930, and several three-story, multifamily houses, where the street's minority of renters live.
But when ministers say "garden cities", something quite different comes to mind – more leafy lane than Leningrad, a wholesome concoction of Arts and Crafts cottages and long shadows from a John Major speech about Englishness.
This 2004 Arts and Crafts-inspired cottage has 2,170 square feet and sits on two-fifths of an acre.
Tourism and the expansion of cottage craft industries, such as the porcelain making at Gubbio, near Perugia, have helped these towns survive.
