Here we are looking down from the Northeast and have a good view of the North Boathouse. Seven bedrooms house maintenance staff on the second floor while the first floor houses a Laundry, Machine Shop, Generator Room, and Battery Room. A dry dock/ boat slip large enough for a one hundred foot yacht occupies the rest of the building. On the right and above the North Boathouse, the sky lighted roof of the Squash Court can be seen, while the North Icehouse is visible on the dock below. To the left of the North Boathouse is the fuel dock and Skiff House used to store smaller boats. The long red roof on the hilltop belongs to the pergola that was built at the end of the original tennis courts as shown on the postcard page. Three hundred yards off the right of the picture is the U.S./Canadian border. Commodore Bourne also purchased Carne Island in Canadian waters. On this small island he also built a boathouse and storage building which proved ever so handy during the prohibition years, part of the colorful history of that era. 

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