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673 Satucket Road
Brewster, Cape Cod, MA 02631
TEL: 508-896-3757
FAX: 508-896-5116
© Copyright 2002 Wendy M. Mathias.
All artwork copyright is owned by Karen North Wells. |
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Crosby
Mansion
Item # 13
Watercolor
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| Location: |
Brewster,
Cape Cod, MA |
| Description: |
A
delightful surprise awaits those who venture a little way off
Main Street down Brewster's Crosby Lane. One of those ostentatious
expressions of sudden wealth that enliven so many American towns,
the Crosby Mansion is a strange architectural hodge-podge if
there ever was one. Added to and changed and revised many times
since the original structure was built almost 200 years ago,
the mansion reveals in its accretions of styles the fads of
many periods. It was in turn a house, an art gallery, a derelict,
a conservatory of music, a restaurant, and a camp for overweight
girls. It is now owned by the state as part of its parks system,
and a group called Friends of the Crosby Mansion is raising
money to restore the quaint old pile.
Karen has added this view of Cape Cod Bay, seen through the
Mansion's arcade, to the collection of prints and cards of her
paintings sold at many galleries and shops including her Underground
Art Gallery in Brewster. |
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