A striking piece of Hamptons architectural history is coming on the market.
A one-of-a-kind, 141-year-old summer cottage in Water Mill is going up for sale, the Wall Street Journal reported. The lodge was built in 1884 by a clergyman named Rev. Henry Turbell Rose. Rose paid his uncle $50 for half an acre of Water Mill farmland and $25 for a house design.
Fast forward centuries, a time in which the Hamptons because a playground for the rich and famous, and the reverend could not have imagined that his quaint summer cottage would one day go on the market for $14.25 million.
The home is named Rosemary Lodge — a combination of Rose’s last name and that of his wife, Mary.
The late Victorian house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, in which it was described as “a highly intact example of the Shingle Style” and praised for Rose’s exceptional workmanship.
The home spans a little over 4,100 square feet and two-and-a-half stories. It boasts a large porch, a steep gabled roof and shingle exteriors with red trim. Each room is clad in a different type of wood, the Journal reported.
Elaborate interior woodwork, crafted by Rose and inspired by the English Tudor period, features floral motifs and even carved inscriptions of Shakespeare, according to the Register.
“It’s so different from going to these new houses, where everything is white and it’s all glass windows,” listing agent Steven Dorn of Brown Harris Stevens told The Journal.
Rosemary Lodge last changed hands in 2005, according to Suffolk County records, for $2.57 million.
Recent restorations remained faithful to the home’s old-world details, the Journal reported, but not the home’s old footprint. According to the National Register, Rosemary Lodge was moved nearly half a mile south in 1985. A pool and a pool house were added after the move.
The current owners renovated the kitchen and bathrooms, the Journal reported, as well as built a screened-in porch. The owners are generously including 50 pieces of original furniture and cabinetry, as well, all built by Rose.