We’ll be creating at least one more bath. Right now we have six rooms and three baths. Customers want private baths and air conditioning. We usually have one rough week in the summer with high heat and humidity. People think I need it, even with ocean breezes from across the road. We are in the process of adding mini-splits for heat and air. Then I retired a little early, and I took on the tasks of innkeeper. In 1982 we converted it to a guesthouse, with my mother running it until 2013. It became our summer residence, as my mother, sister, and I spent all our summers here, wintering in Hanover. My family rented the house from friends in the 1950s, and later bought the house in 1959. It is one of six cottages remaining on the Island designed by Pratt. Our Victorian-style Oak Bluffs cottage was built in 1873 for the Tillinghast family - prominent merchants and ship owners from Rhode Island and New York - by well-known architect Samuel Freeman Pratt.
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