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No offense to Eleanor, it's a little milktoast in style.

Not bad but not great. The setting is amazing though. There are records of the many more cottages that were built originally by her mother in laws generation when Campobello was developed by the first rusticators heading up the coast.

Nearly all of those original cottages are gone now. Big stick buildings, especially seasonally used, go down fast without maintenance. Fascinating dichotomy along our coasts-local vs away, that continues today. Overall I think the soul-less trend in architecture today pales in comparison.

In the sheer decadence department, I prefer the 5mil custom yacht being built in Maine to the 5 mil McMansion. The McMansions, mamouth energy hogs, suck natural resources for decades, maybe longer if the market holds up. They could be around offending my eyes(and my offspring) for a century, maybe longer.

The custom yacht on the other hand pays the locality handsomely during construction(as does the McMansion), but it devalues almost instantly, pays a decade or so of massive maintenance revenue, and then the outdated style gets donated to the Boyscouts.

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