were larger than most of those built in the forties and early fifties. There was no particular architectural design about them. They were rather commonplace, and what would now be termed "barny," but comfortable, substantial homes. Twenty or thirty years ago the "Swiss villa" was all the rage. Perhaps the best example of this to-day is the residence of Hon. Martin Brimmer, about a half mile west of Pride's Crossing station. Here we have a pretty cottage with piazzas, verandas, gables and lattice work, all surrounded by an abundance of trees and shrubbery, and a broad sloping lawn in front. The residence of Gen. F. W. Palfrey, on the high bluff in the woods,

somewhat nearer the station (better known as "Cro' Nest"), is another good specimen of the earlier "Swiss villa," and remains practically without change since built. It is perched high above the street on a perpendicular bluff, and commands an extended view oceanward. Mr. Thomas E. Proctor's house, on Hale Street at the head of Prince, is another striking example of a modern Swiss villa on a lofty eminence. Seen from the highway it is both imposing and picturesque, while the view, looking off from the piazza, is one of great variety and rare beauty. A wonderful panorama lies before us: the harbors of Salem and Beverly, with their coves and points of and;

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Hospital Point shore, one long wide. lawn, dotted here and there with cottages of various colors and designs, and clusters of trees and shrubbery; the islands of the bay; and, in the distance, the towers and roofs of Salem and old Marblehead. Well might the dweller here say, with the poet,

"My house was built on the cliff's tall crest

As high as an eagle might choose her nest;
The builders have descended the hill
Like spirits who have done their master's will.
Below, the billows in endless reach
Commune in uncomprehended speech."

Of an entirely different type is the residence of Mr. F. Gordon Dexter, which is situated on the shore side of the railroad between the Farms and Pride's, reached by a winding driveway through the woods. It is after the pattern of 1692, the old gambrel roof, plain ends and sides, entirely destitute of ornamentation, yet interesting and architecturally and artistically attractive. Only three or four houses of this style are to be found along the shore. Another design, and a very rare one on Cape Ann, is the massive stone mansion Mrs. Franklin Dexter. is located in the woods on the easterly side of Curtis Point, and between Prince Street and Mingo Beach.

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Seen from the water front, it looks very much like one of those famous old Rhinish castles. With the ocean at our feet as we sit on the piazza, and Marblehead and Salem in the distance on the other shore, it requires but a slight stretch of the imagination for us to apply those well-known lines of Byron :

"The castle crag of Drachenfels

Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine,
Whose breast of waters broadly swells
Between the banks which bear the vine;
And hills all rich with blossomed trees,
And fields which promise corn and wine;
And scattered cities crowning these,

Whose far white walls along them shine."

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One other summer residence in this vicinity there is, something like the Dexter mansion: Oberwold," in the woods, about half a mile inland from Beverly Cove. It stands on a slight knoll some rods off the main street, half hidden among the tall pines. A trifle gloomy at times, perhaps, the place has many attractions, especially for those who love the "murmuring pines and the hemlocks" that "stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic."

Ten or twelve years ago the "Queen Anne" cottage was built more frequently than any other, and seemed destined to supplant the "Swiss villa." About the same time there was a revival of the well-known "colonial" style of architecture. The residence of Mr. Amory A. Lawrence on Hospital Point, built about 1880, is one of the best specimens of the Queen Anne, especially as regards the interior; and the residences of Mr.

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along the whole North Shore. Between the Endicott and Pickman residences is one of the most charming estates on the coast, the villa of Mr. Joseph W. LeFavor of Boston. On the northerly side is a lawn of considerable extent, made attractive by a profusion of flowers and shrubbery, while the outlook from the south is across the bay with its islands and white-winged messengers of commerce. Next beyond Hospital Point, on Burgess Point, one finds a group of cottages which well illustrate the old and the new in designs for seashore houses. Here is the old Bardwell house, dating back a third of a century or more, and the Burgess mansion on the extreme

newer houses are on what originally formed the extensive Lowell estate. Here the yacht designer, Edward Burgess, passed the pleasant summers of his youth; and here he took his first lessons in yachting. He has sailed many a pretty yacht in these waters. Fifteen and eighteen years ago the races of the Beverly Yacht Club were mostly sailed off this shore, the start usually being made off Burgess Point, or between there and Hospital Point. A yacht race off Marblehead was unknown then; now it is a thing of the past off Beverly. The old Burgess mansion has passed to the possession of Mr. R. C. Evans of Boston, and has been re-modelled the past spring.

So we may follow this Beverly shore from the first summer residence at the Farms toward the town, until within a few rods of the harbor, where we shall find the newest hotel and the latest group of seashore cottages. Thus we see the whole coast line of the old town, saving a few beaches, in possession of the summer resident from the city. As Lucy Larcom, the true poet of the North Shore, and herself a native of Beverly, has well said:

"Strangers have found that landscape's beauty out
And hold its deeds and titles. But the waves
That wash the quiet shores of Beverly,
The winds that gossip with the waves, the sky
That immemorially bends, listening,
Have reminiscences that still assert
Inalienable claims from those who won,
By sweat of their own brows, this heritage."

When the best sites on the immediate shore had been occupied, seekers after

many thousands to-day. The higher and rougher the hill, and the more dense the woods, the more valuable the property. Here the men of wealth will transform the rougher features of the landscape into beautiful lawns and terraces. "Embosomed in shady retreats," says a recent writer, "overlooking the coast towns, the islands, the surf-white shore, and the open sea, vexed with giant steamers and white with passing canvas, are their residences, with wings, porticoes, piazzas, towers strange in architecture and richly garnished." This description will answer for half a hundred of these North Shore homes, and with slight variations might well apply to several hundred of them. As for Beverly itself, some persons there are who believe that it was destined to become a second Newport, but that the dissensions over the division question,