Most of the buildings are very old: farmhouses and labourers' cottages build in traditional red clay brick with thatched roofs.

If anybody fits in a historic area, why not these old cottages built at the turn of the century?

Battell purchased many thousands of acres in the vicinity of Middlebury, adjacent to Bread Loaf Mountain, and had an existing building added to and cottages built for guests of his.

Near to his house, we understand, He had a waste plat of land, Which did but little profit yield, On which he did a cottage build.

The residential stock varies from working men's cottages built in the 1800s to semi-detached homes to mansions.

Penn alumnus Paul Kelly funded renovations to the house itself, a cottage built as part of a Victorian suburban development project in 1851.

Kelly funded renovations to the house itself, a Victorian cottage built in 1851.

A monastic concrete cottage by Irving Gill, the father of California minimalism, built in 1917, to use for an office.

This converted cottage has six rooms, three original and charming with shared bath and three recently built with private baths, as well as a guest kitchen.

According to architectural historians, similar three-bedroom cottages built on small plots of land in the Poughkeepsie area in mid-20's cost as little as $7,000 and as much as $10,000.