Cottage Line Up 1900

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Bray built the first cottage on Higgins Beach in 1884.  He could not buy the land he put it on at the time and had to rent it from Mr Higgins.  He later was able to buy the land.  Originally, his 1 and 1/2 story cottage faced the sea.  It wasn't long before it was joined by others as shown in the upper photo.  The arrow points to Ezra's cottage.  On the back of the photo is written: Higgins Beach Shore front ocean to left.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>When the streets were laid out, grandfather had to have the cottage turned around to face one of the new streets (Morning Street).  </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>When other cottages obstructed the ocean view, Ezra had his jacked up and set on wooden posts so that my grandmother Hattie could see the ocean while sitting on the porch as illustrated by the lower photo.  The lower portion was boarded in</B></I></div> <div> <I><B> to make a dirt cellar.  My late cousin Doris Brookes is the left person seated on the stairs.  Ezra Bray is at the far right standing on the porch.  His wife Hattie is probably one of the two women with him.  Photo date is probably 1919-1922.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>This cottage was originally built from shoe crate lumber from the Cushman Shoe Factory in Auburn, Maine.  The crates were used for railroad shipments of shoes and were built in an adjacent shop to the factory where Ezra worked at the 1880's and obtained the lumber (legally).  The cottage was laid out in shoe crate lengths instead of feet which made it rather unique.</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Donald H. Bray, May 4, 2005</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="5891e87a0.jpg" border=0 width="1000" height="634" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Now.....</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="5892f4750.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="373" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>2005</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><IMG SRC="5894f4c90.jpg" border=0 width="500" height="457" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <I><B>2015</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <A HREF="id872.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="High Hopes Cottage 1920s"><B>Last History Page</B></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>