13-525: The Webster Estate is a historic summer estate in Holderness, New Hampshire . Located near Carns Cove on Squam Lake off New Hampshire Route 113 , the estate belongs to the locally prominent Webster family. It includes a number of houses: the Homestead, which was built for the family patriarch, Frank Webster, in 1899, and the 1903 Laurence Webster House. It was one of the largest summer estates on Squam Lake at
26-640: A second home ). It can be a larger dwelling like a cottage rather than a simple shelter. Sommarhus (in Swedish : sommarstuga or lantställe ), in Norwegian hytte , is a popular holiday home or summer cottage, often near the sea or in an attractive area of the countryside. Most are timber constructions, often suitable for year-round use. Increasingly they have additions such as saunas , heating ovens , fireplaces , or attractive gardens. Increasingly, English speakers call them summerhouses. A Swedish sommarstuga
39-559: A house must use it as their primary home and spend most of their overnight stays there. Other areas of Norway are defined as "summer house areas", where it is forbidden to live permanently. This is because there are quality requirements for permanent homes that do not apply to cottages. Sweden has no ban against using summer houses all year or against using a normal house in summer only. This has made Swedish summer houses popular for Danes, Norwegians, and Germans. But in some desirable coastal areas, prices are so high that residents cannot afford
52-1050: A house, making some traditional coastal villages very silent in winter. boplikt Look for Boplikt on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Boplikt in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use
65-480: Is traditionally painted with a special red colour called falu rödfärg and has white trimmed corners, windows, and doors. Many of the Danish resorts depend on the rental of summerhouses to accommodate national and foreign tourists who can rent them, usually on a weekly basis, at prices (for a family) well below those of hotels. But Scandinavians often spend a considerable amount of time in their summerhouses which are often
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91-518: The Squam Lake area in 1881, staying at the Asquam Hotel on Shepard Hill . In 1891, he purchased the farm of Willy Sleep, which became the core holding of the estate, and is where the surviving estate houses now stand. At its height, the estate reached 5,000 acres (2,000 ha), and was one of the largest private landholdings in the state. Webster managed the estate as a timber farm , carefully limiting
104-481: The estate lands are meadow, providing the three houses built for the Webster family expansive views of the lake. The houses are clustered on the hillside well back from Route 113, along with a garage, greenhouse, and formal garden. The Homestead, the estate's original main house, is a two-story gambrel-roofed Shingle-style structure, with a fieldstone foundation and shingled exterior. Its principal public rooms are extended to
117-425: The harvests. The Homestead is the only significant property associated with Webster's life. Summer estate A summer house or summerhouse is a building or shelter used for relaxation in warm weather. This would often take the form of a small, roofed building on the grounds of a larger one, but could also be built in a garden or park, often designed to provide cool shady places of relaxation or retreat from
130-405: The outside by covered piazzas. The interior retains original finishes, which are of modest and unpretentious style. The Laurence J. Webster House stands to its west; it is also Shingle style, but has a more elaborate massing than The Homestead. Frank G. Webster was a prominent financial manager, who for many years had a leading role in the investment firm Kidder, Peabody & Co. He first visited
143-452: The summer heat. It can also refer to a second residence, usually located in the country , that provides a cool and relaxing home to live in during the summer, such as a vacation property . Especially in the Nordic countries , sommerhus ( Danish ), sommarstuga ( Swedish ), hytte ( Norwegian ), sumarbústaður or sumarhús ( Icelandic ) or kesämökki ( Finnish ) is a summer residence (as
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#1732875685495156-515: The time. A 16.4-acre (6.6 ha) remnant of the original 5,000-acre (2,000 ha) estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The Webster Estate is located a few miles northeast of the village center of Holderness, on terrain that slopes southwest of Carns Cove on Squam Lake . The estate is accessed via a series of private or semi-private lanes, including Webster Lane and Burleigh Farm Road. A significant portion of
169-502: The venue for family reunions or simply weekends away from the office. In recent years, the popularity and, thus, the cost of summerhouses has increased appreciably, particularly in Denmark's coastal resorts. Under Danish law, owners are generally not permitted to use these houses as permanent homes; an exception is made for pensioners. In some attractive areas of Norway, there is "residence duty" (Norwegian: boplikt ), meaning that an owner of
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