LEADER 04355nam 2200613Ia 450 001 9910814628503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4384-4309-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9781438443096 035 $a(CKB)2670000000278385 035 $a(EBL)3408637 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000780480 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12329692 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000780480 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10802786 035 $a(PQKB)10022803 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3408637 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10622335 035 $a(OCoLC)923416468 035 $a(DE-B1597)683033 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781438443096 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3408637 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000278385 100 $a20110914d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn uncommon cape $eresearching the histories and mysteries of a property /$fEleanor Phillips Brackbill 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 225 1 $aExcelsior Editions 300 $a"Excelsior editions." 311 $a1-4384-4308-0 311 $a1-4384-4307-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""an Uncommon cape ""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Mysteries of the House ""; ""Chapter one: Something Like a Sears House ""; ""Chapter two: The House Finds a Home ""; ""Chapter three: The Cape Cod House: Why So Common, Why So Popular? ""; ""Part II: Thirty-Two Owners in 350 Years: A Focus on Four ""; ""Chapter four: Wappaquewam: Siwanoy Sakima ""; ""Chapter five: Caleb Heathcote: Manor Lord ""; ""Chapter six: Isaac Gedney Jr.: The Neutral Ground ""; ""Chapter seven: Louis Block and Harry Rich Mooney:From Farm to Subdivision "" 327 $a""Part III: Mysteries of the Land """"Chapter eight: In New York or In Connecticut? ""; ""Chapter nine: Moon Over Mamaroneck: When and Where ""; ""Chapter ten: Monkey Business and More: The Possibilities ""; ""Epilogue: Kernels of Truth ""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Sidebar Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index"" 330 $aWhen Eleanor Phillips Brackbill bought her suburban Westchester house in 2000, three mysteries came with it. First, from the former owner, came the information that the 1930s house was "a Sears house or something like that." Thrilled to think it might be a Sears, Roebuck & Co. mail-order house, Brackbill was determined to find evidence to prove it. She found instead a house pedigree of a different sort.Second, and even more provocative, was the discovery of several iron stakes protruding from the property's enormous granite outcropping, bigger in square footage than the house itself. When queried about them, the former owner told her, "Someone a long time ago kept monkeys there, chained to the stakes." Monkeys? Was this some kind of suburban legend? A third mystery came to light at closing, when a building inspector's letter contained a reference to the house having had, at one time, a different address. Why would the house have had another address? Her curiosity aroused, and intent upon finding the facts, Brackbill gradually peeled back layers of history, allowing the house and the land to tell their stories, and uncovering a past inextricably woven into four centuries of American history. At the same time, she found thirty-two owners, across 350 years, who had just one thing in common: ownership of a particular parcel of land.An Uncommon Cape not only tells the story of an eight-year odyssey of fact-finding and speculation but also answers the broader question: "What came before?" and, through material presented in twenty-two sidebars, offers readers insights and guidelines on how to find the stories behind their own homes. 410 0$aExcelsior Editions 606 $aCape Cod houses$zNew York (State)$zMamaroneck 607 $aMamaroneck (N.Y.)$xHistory 607 $aMamaroneck (N.Y.)$vBiography 615 0$aCape Cod houses 676 $a974.7277 700 $aBrackbill$b Eleanor Phillips$01600568 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910814628503321 996 $aAn uncommon cape$94012042 997 $aUNINA