As readers may have noticed, I am often attracted to unusual houses. The house at 32 Planting Field Way in Edgartown is certainly unusual for the Vineyard.
Is it really the Warren House? I see in the Gazette that the Warren House is back in the news. I have to smile. The house had a sign on it, “The Captain Warren House” for as many years as I have been coming to the Vineyard.
One of Edgartown’s properties with an interesting story has changed hands recently. What we know as the Vose property at Tower Hill started out in the 1890s as Quiet Corner. The house and its outbuildings, including the iconic boathouse, were built by Sol Smith Russell, a vaudeville star who became very successful as an actor and singer, but who made even more money as a real estate entrepreneur in Minneapolis. These buildings were designed by Frank Alden, an Edgartown native who did most of his work in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr.
