Clingstone – house on a rocky cliff.
In Narragansett Bay in the US state of Rhode Island, a 3-story residential building can be seen atop a tiny rocky islet. Open to all winds and storms, the lonely structure has successfully withstood them for over 100 years.
Clingstone – home built by Joseph Lovering Wharton.
Clingstone House is a house that was built just over 100 years ago. Its former owner, Joseph Lovering Wharton, erected a dwelling in such a strange place in protest against the actions of the government, which took away his land and his old house in order to increase the area of the fort under construction. An angry American decided to build a house in a place from which no one could oust him..
Clingstone – home, «embedded» into the rock.
The house was named Clingstone. Usually this word refers to types of fruit with seeds that are difficult to separate from the pulp. By calling his house that way, the owner probably meant that his structure was tight «embedded» into the rock.
Henry Wood is the owner of the house on the island.
Twenty years after the death of Wharton’s widow in 1961, the house was bought by their distant relative, the architect Henry Wood. The new owner carried out a partial redevelopment of the house and updated the interior. The house has 23 rooms including 10 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms.
Clingstone. Interior.
Despite the fact that the house looks old-fashioned from the outside, Henry Wood has tried to equip the most popular «green» technologies: solar panels, wind turbines, dry closets, rainwater collection system and seawater filtration. Alternative energy sources completely provide the house with electricity.
Don on a rock in Rhode Island.
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