It was built as a retirement cottage for Dr. Howard Taylor, a wealthy physician who paid $150,000 for the home.
There were some splendid Cotswold-stone outbuildings and these I turned into a retirement cottage years later for the elderly Bassetts.
Peyna spoke to Dennis for some time, as the three of them stood in the chilly sunshine in front of the "retirement cottage" where the old judge would never come again.
But there are no vacations now, and there is no more talk of a retirement cottage.
Spend my last hundred years tending to some old man in a Summer- lands retirement cottage?
He made it well enough to his office, a straight shot south, past the quiet little summer rentals and retirement cottages, all dark and tucked in for the night.
In addition, his retirement cottage outside of Plattsburg, MO burned to the ground before his death in 1886.
"Mm, don't go scouting surfside retirement cottages just yet," said Gregor.
The building used for the museum, known as 'the Retreat', had been constructed as a retirement cottage in the 1840s by Captain J.E. Wemyss.
Four weeks later, he is fishing outside his retirement cottage, when he hears over the radio that Saddam Hussein has invaded Kuwait.