Beach:Basement (1975)
Dad needed a place to work (maybe to hide) and a permanent place for the pump and pressure tank. He and Dufort were both tinkerers and took it as a challenge to try to fix anything without going to the hardware store. So they needed places to tinker and store all the spare parts. In 1975 dad got a mason, Henry Tenden, to pick up the cottage and build a block basement underneath with a door on the back just two steps down in a shallow well.
Back of cottage with porch (where hot water tank sat for several years), stairs to the East and Sue cleaning out underneath (1970)
Font of cottage before lift (1975)
Mom with cottage lifted and spoil pile (1975)
Bobs inspecting the beams supporting cottage (1975)
Cottage lifted with old pilings in foreground (1975)
Basement in and cottage lowered. The hole seen through doorway is where beam went through and will become a window (1975)
Bob and Sue inspecting the winter cover for the stair well
Basement finished and porch stairs restored to land on pad tied to basement stairwell (1975)
Ready for winter (1975)