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The Water Witch Club colony on the Highlands hillside, ca. 1895 — a row of Shingle-style summer cottages against the bluff, colorized
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The Water Witch Club, 1895

1895

Water Witch Historic District, Highlands (approx)

The Water Witch Club — an exclusive summer colony of Shingle-style cottages on the Highlands hillside, planned as a Tuxedo-Park-of-the-shore by Ferdinand Fish and named after Cooper's 1830 novel. A dozen cottages by 1900, most of them designed by architects who commuted from the same summer. Listed on the National Register in 2004 as the Water Witch Club Historic District.

Then and now

The Water Witch Club colony on the Highlands hillside, ca. 1895 — a row of Shingle-style summer cottages against the bluff, colorized
The Water Witch Club Historic District today — the same cottages, listed on the National Register in 2004, still occupied

Item record

Title
The Water Witch Club, 1895
Date
1895
Source
Placeholder — stand-in for period colorization.
Contributor
Placeholder — stand-in for the Fish family / Twin Lights Historical Society
Rights
Placeholder — replace before publishing
Slug
painted-shore-water-witch-1895

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Cite this item

The Water Witch Club, 1895 (1895). Placeholder — stand-in for period colorization. The Highlands History Project, https://history.abovethehook.com/archive/painted-shore-water-witch-1895/.