Ahead of them, on the bluffs, was a small wooden shingled cottage backed by scudding clouds and the roar of ocean tides.

The shingled cottages would range in size from 1,300 to 1,950 square feet, not including two-car attached garages.

Legacy asked curiously, looking around at the neat shingled cottages.

They were happy with the old shingled cottage.

Paintings of shingled cottages, jaunty sailboats, ocean bathers and lighthouses began to appear in the city's galleries.

She bought a shingled cottage in the Hamptons before prices got prohibitive.

The project, to expand a traditional shingled cottage, may have been the first example of modern residential architecture on Long Island, Mr. Gordon said.

Coiled rope, yellow and blue and red, was draped picturesquely over the railings of shingled cottages.

"No shirts off," an officer said casually from the deck of headquarters, a gray shingled cottage like any other on Fire Island.

The charming 18th-century shingled cottage that houses the museum on James Lane was said to have inspired the song.