Okay everybody…I know this is what you have been waiting for….the garage! Ah…But it is not an ordinary garage – it is a true carriage house. I think it is at least as old as the actual cottage. And that makes it very wonderful in my book. I have determined from old pictures that it was originally located further east on the grounds of the old camp. Back in the day, buildings were moved around quite often. I actually have just discovered that there was…
Now to the fun part – Paint colors! You knew that was coming up next – right? When the previous owner bought this cottage over twenty-five years ago, things were apparently a tad bit rough about the edges. It seems that all of the walls on the main floor, some of the woodwork, and who knows what-all-else had been painted a bright shade of yellow. That yellow was covering up a previous shade of robin’s egg blue – and not doing a great…
Shell’s Cottage was built by an old Gearhart family named Waterhouse sometime in the late 1910’s. County records say the house was built in 1910 but family history and other records say it was the early 1920’s. It is quite possible that another small structure existed there earlier and was incorporated into the house. Unlike many of the cottages built in the old resort of Gearhart Park by the Sea, this was not a summer home. The family had lived in the area since the 1880’s…