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[Monte Davis]

> 159:35   "'Say,  you've never seen our cottage,' Fax said one day ..."
> 
> Typical Gilded Age stuff:
> 
> Long Island Gold Coast: <http://www.ligoldcoast.com/lipublic.html>

That link's not working for me, but here's another:

http://www.liu.edu/cwis/CWP/library/exhibits/goldcoas.htm

And one of the most often snickered-at "cottages" at Newport, RI, across the
Sound:

 http://gonewengland.about.com/library/blbreakersexterior.htm

And the modest, simple, unassuming progenitors of the whole idea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_Trianon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petit_hameau