Located on the East Chop Vineyard Highlands overlooking Nantucket Sound, Oak Bluffs harbor, Sunset Lake, and 3 acre Washington Park, this charmingly original 1860's Vineyard cottage, newly heated and air conditioned, is an ideal family vacation home. Leave the car on the mainland or in the driveway, for everything, including the mainland ferries and island shuttle busses are within a 3 – 5 minute walk. Oak Bluffs is the most active, diverse and fun town on the island and is loaded with beautifully restored Victorian cottages, summer homes and ocean park areas.
Walk to Jetty beach, the harbor boat launch, ferries to Rhode Island, New Bedford, Falmouth Harbor, Woods Hole, Hyannis and even NYC, movies, fine clubs, pubs, restaurants and shopping, arcades, deep sea fishing, historic sites (including the Flying Horses carousal), food, ice cream and liquor stores, bicycle rentals, car rentals and the beautiful Methodist victorian cottage campground and outdoor tabernacle.
Please call/write for more pictures and info. Bike or ride to 5 other towns and over 116 extraordinary preserved public beach, pond, wooded and wilderness areas open to the public. Watch family baseball, football, kite flying, etc, in the safe fenced in park from the wrap around porch with its own dining area.
The cottage is in restored original condition with many original features including hardwood floors, paned windows with original glass, cathedral ceilings, painted sinks, shuttered interior doors and windows and clever built-ins and features 6 bedrooms (6 upstairs (one is a kids bedroom) via 2 stairways, one downstairs (parlor/bedroom with a pullout couch)), sleeps 10 max (linens/towels not provided), 8 zone split system heat and air conditioning plus room ceiling fans/box fans, 3 baths; one upstairs with a claw foot tub over looking the harbor/ocean; two downstairs, one with handicap shower stall, one with an outside shower, living room with fireplace, kitchen with gas stove and antique glenwood cookstove, dining room with gas fireplace, sunroom, private outdoor vineyard with deck and seating area with grill, and large wrap around outdoor porch overlooking Washington Park, the town of Oak Bluffs, Sunset Lake (to the west) and the harbor/ocean to the south. Southeasterly exposure insures maximum sun. read more show less