The Retirement of a Lifetime

Cottage residents at Piper Shores enjoy spacious, private homes while realizing all the benefits of Maine’s first and only lifecare retirement community. Our active, engaged community combines affordable independent living with guaranteed priority access to higher levels of on-site care—all for a predictable monthly fee. Call today for a complimentary luncheon cottage tour.

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Maine’s first CARF-CCAC accredited community

(207) 883-8700 • Toll Free (888) 333-8711

15 Piper Road • Scarborough, ME 04074 www.pipershores.org

Bobbi Cox and her first husband, Bill, bought Mulberry Cottage in 1984, and Bobbi has made it a showpiece, preserving historic features (Indian shutters, wide-board floors, corner closets, a narrow staircase that winds around a massive central chimney) while adding modern conveniences such as a stateof-the-art kitchen, walk-in closets, and built-in bookshelves everywhere. In addition to 3,700 square feet of living space (five bedrooms, three and a half baths), there’s a spacious barn in back— a 1997 replica of the original barn—all on a landscaped lot of just under half an acre. It’s offered for $725,000.

There are too many treasures inside to describe, but I have to mention the museum-quality collection of wooden duck decoys belonging to Bobbi’s second husband, John Powlovich. John is the kind of collector who prefaces all his comments with “I’m no expert” and then demonstrates his expertise.

I could have spent all day at Mulberry Cottage, but Bobbi had other commitments, and I needed to get off the Cape against the inflowing tide of Independence Day tourists. But she generously gave me a brief auto tour of Barnstable, which seems to have the Nation’s Oldest This or the First American That on every corner. And of course there are heart-lifting glimpses of the ocean and the dunes of Sandy Neck a short walk from the house. Little wonder that Mrs. Beale wrote of the house:

The mulberry tree has grown so huge, The house was hard to find, But when we found the key-hole, And opened wide the door, All the rooms were smiling at us: The house that we adore.

For details, contact Bobbi Cox, Kinlin Grover Real Estate, Osterville, Mass. 508-420-1130 (office), 508-737-3763 (cell); bcox@kinlingrover.com. Read classic HFS stories from our archives at: YankeeMagazine.com/house-for-sale