The House

Our home is in a lovely residential neighborhood, next to town via the main streets of the charming seaside village of Rockport. The house has two good size bedrooms upstairs, each with a queen bed, 100% cotton sheets, and soothing colors to evoke the ocean or a midnight sky. An office with a workstation to set up your laptop includes an external monitor and a wireless keyboard set up, for working from home. We have fast WiFi which is also great for streaming movies and TV shows in the evening. The primary bedroom has one window AC unit, and all rooms have large fans for windows.

Downstairs, a family room adjoins the kitchen with a breakfast bar and seating for two. The family room has a 40 inch LCD HDTV for streaming if you bring your laptop. Our kitchen is fully equipped with everything you need, including a lobster pot, a rice cooker, and other basic cooking and baking pans. We have a dishwasher with an express cycle, and an electric stove. There is a washer/dryer in a half bathroom on the ground floor, right off the kitchen, and a lovely appointed formal dining room. For quiet conversation, you can sit in the living room in comfy 1940s armchairs and have your pick of contemporary fiction, non fiction and books about local history and art on the North Shore and New England.

Front Beach is less than a half mile away, or a 5 to 10 minute walk, commuter rail is 5 minutes away (as is the Dairy Train for soft serve ice cream until mid October!). Bearskin Neck, Rockport’s art galleries and the famous Shalin Liu performance center, seen in the movie CODA, are a 10-15 minute walk. Parking is easy in front of our house for one car. Back Beach is a 10 minute walk.

We have beach chairs, beach towels, sun hat and an umbrella for your use. During the summer, you can catch a Rockport Townies baseball game at Evans Field, a great old baseball field originally constructed in 1929. The Townies are part of the Intertown Twilight League (ITL) baseball, the oldest amateur baseball league in the U.S. We are also down the hill from the Rockport entrance to Dogtown, the biggest green open space on Cape Anne. We are also a 3-5 minute walk from a small shopping center, which has a Walgreen’s, an Ace hardware store and Crackerjack’s Whistlestop Market, a general store with groceries, milk, dairy products, some produce, art supplies, and household goods. A bit further down Railroad Avenue is a Cumberland Farms convenience market is also within walking distance, and the Cape Ann Isinglass building is now the home of Hong Kong Kitchen, a Chinese takeout restaurant.

For major grocery shopping at a Market Basket or Shaw’s, you will need to drive or get an approximately $10 taxi ride to Gloucester (a quick 10 minute drive). A 20 minute walk up Granite Street or a quick drive will take you to the Granite Keystone Bridge and the quarries of Pigeon Cove for a fabulous nature hike. Rockport is an ocean side town and typically the weather is balmy but mild in the summer. For the occasional heat waves and humidity in the summer, we have one in-window air conditioning unit in the primary bedroom, and several fans to help keep the breezes flowing on rare hot and humid days.