{"id":16901,"date":"2019-10-30T17:19:29","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=16901"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:14:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T14:14:02","slug":"nubble-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/nubble-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Nubble View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; width: 100%; height: 450px;\" src=\"\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23d2d2d2&amp;backgroundColorFullscreen=%23d2d2d2&amp;d=nov19_flipbook_final&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=82&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You\u2019re sitting pretty in this <b>retreat<\/b> designed<br \/>\nfor an <b>acclaimed writer<\/b>.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>November 2019<\/p>\n<p><em>By Colin W. Sargent<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16861\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19-HOM-web-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"nov19 HOM web\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19-HOM-web-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19-HOM-web-200x135.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/nov19-HOM-web.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>W<\/span><span class=\"s1\">hen Dr. Murray Straus, an internationally respected professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire, took a sabbatical in Paris, he and his wife, Dorothy, bought a 42-foot canal boat. What a perfect solution for writing a book\u201cwhile cruising the canals of France,\u201d Dorothy says. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The two dreamers loved the experience so much they searched for another nautical residence beyond the modernist berm-style home they owned in Durham, New Hampshire. They discovered it in Maine, on <strong>Long Sands Beach<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cNubble View\u201d was a 1930s Dutch Colonial home with dazzling oceanfront views across Long Beach Road. At one time, a tea room operated on the first floor. What Murray and Dorothy found was the kind of romantic place where they roll up the sidewalks along the beach during the winter. What a place for contemplation and inspiration! A true writer\u2019s retreat.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>STORM CENTER<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The winter storms had enormous breakers that detonated into the sea wall, spectacular with spume and spindrift. Not only could they see Nubble Light to the left, Boon Island Light (the tallest in Maine) was straight out the living room window.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>LAND YACHT<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Perfect. If only this house were a boat! \u201cWe hired Ivan Stanek, originally from Prague, who\u2019d worked extensively on our Durham berm house.\u201d Extreme creativity was a must. \u201cWe told him we wanted the feeling of living on a boat. He\u2019d worked on yachts in Florida and understood what we wanted. He delivered.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The fanciful new interior, with lovely pickled wood, curves, mahogany, portholes, and ladders, looks like a boat and a lighthouse at once. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">T<\/span><span class=\"s1\">his 3,526-square-foot year-round getaway has a recently reduced price of <strong>$1.495M<\/strong>. It has seven bedrooms, 3.75 baths, six parking spaces, and a huge two-car garage with loft. The front patio is shielded from the breezes by rugosa roses. The estate is actually three unique rental units\u2013always in high demand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">On the top floor, Stanek, who fled to America in the 1980s from Czechoslovakia, has created a most princely pulpit. It\u2019s the author\u2019s equivalent of a flying bridge. A single person (Straus was the author of 15 books, including <i>Beating the Devil Out of Them<\/i>: <i>Corporal Punishment in the American Family <\/i>and<i> Intimate Violence<\/i>) ascends a ladder from the living room. Once you\u2019ve settled in to the built-in cushion\/nook, you\u2019ve made it to the crow\u2019s nest. You\u2019re surrounded by portholes framing the heaving waves. An ingenious polished wood desk slides out of the wall. The beach, and the world, are at your feet. On your notebook, you type Chapter One.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Taxes for 345 Long Beach Avenue are $11,796.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scenic beach retreat made to inspire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[892,232,224],"tags":[505,26,507,506,127,508,504],"class_list":["post-16901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","category-shelter-design","category-talking-walls","tag-boon-island-light","tag-house-of-the-month","tag-ivan-stanek","tag-long-sands-beach","tag-maine","tag-murray-straus","tag-nubble-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19319,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16901\/revisions\/19319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}