One of the things I love about the South Coast of Massachusetts is the maritime tradition. Through most of the nineteenth century, New Bedford was the world capital of whaling. In the present day that tradition continues with the world's largest scallop fleet. This week New Bedford celebrates that tradition with the arrival of the Charles W. [...]

Do you love New England's open countryside and beautiful trails? Here are some farms, country reteats and great deals:

Swimming ponds in the Green Mountains

Great places to ride at great values

Trying to please a horse person and a fisherman?

Or a horse person and a golf/ tennis player?

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Dreaming of a summer escape by a New England lake? Here are some of our favorite properties.

Great Camp Romance

The Pinnacle on Lake Champlain Charlotte, VT $1,795,000

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All the Amenities

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Mountains and Loons

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Dreaming of a summer escape on the New England coast? Here are some of our favorite properties.

Get out in the islands

Summer on the beach

Tie up to your dock

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For more information on effective planning for real estate and art, please contact Ruth Kennedy Sudduth, Elizabeth Chapin of Christies (617-536-6000) or Jenny Naylor of J.P. Morgan Private Bank (617-310-0716). For great Vermont properties for sale on the Lake Champlain waterfront, gentlemans farms or near skiing, [...]

When the current owners of 861 Sea View in Osterville went searching for a beach house, they walked down its long driveway, across the lawn, peeked over the dune, and fell in love.

On the long quiet beach was a little cabana.

For us, it was all about that cabana on the beach. Where else can you hang out on a big beautiful beach, with no one [...]

LandVests portfolio of listings contains gems of design. North Mowing, in the Connecticut River Valley, is blessed not just with great natural beauty but by generations of owners with artistic sensibilities. Members of the thriving artists colony at the turn of the 20th century, Horace Browns family infused the property with the romantic [...]

Built by shipwrights in 1834 for whaling merchant William Rotch Jr., the Rotch-Jones-Duff (RJD) House and Garden Museum epitomizes the brave houses and flowery gardens described by Herman Melville in Moby-Dick. Greek Revival in style, it was designed by architect Richard Upjohn, a founder and first president of the American Institute or [...]

We're delighted that The Grace Estate on Islesboroin Maine is featured in Architectural Digest's On the Market feature this month. It's no surprise to usthat the magazine selected this most extraordinary property, which features a stunning 1918 Rennaisance Revival residence in a spectacular site overlooking Penobscot Bay. With its own [...]