He has hired students to paint windows and curtains on the trailer to create the effect of a waterfront cottage.

Afterward, Marion and I returned to our waterfront cottage, went out in a rowboat and ate lobster rolls, among other things, before leaving the next morning.

Adults only; families may stay in a two-bedroom waterfront cottage, owned by the inn, for $105 a night.

In sleepy Madison, Conn., Margaret Muir showed an early-20th-century waterfront "cottage" listed for $2.5 million to a young man who had expressed a desire for something historic.

In the 1890's, William J. Howard, a glove manufacturer, bought much of the land, dredged Shellbank Basin, reclaimed hundreds of acres and built waterfront cottages.

After a 1962 nor'easter snatched part of the bluff her waterfront cottage in Rocky Point was built on, she created a terracing system.

The boathouse was below and, beside it, a waterfront cottage that Dixon had winterized and filled with athletic equipment.

Two recent purchases in The Springs, he noted, were by the actors Terrence Stamp and Mercedes Ruehl, who bought waterfront cottages.

"I got a knock on the door, and someone said, 'Take a look,' " said Douglas Pulitzer, a copyright lawyer who lives in a waterfront cottage.

There are also a three-bedroom three-bathroom waterfront cottage and an apartment above a detached garage.