The Chilmark conservation commission gave property owners along Stonewall Beach permission to relocate their homes and bolster the deteriorating cliff. But, upset with what they consider burdensome limits on the plan, the homeowners have filed an appeal.
Stonewall beach
2025
March 13, 2025
Three homeowners on Stonewall Beach have proposed an ambitious plan to move their houses inland while also bolstering the steep, deteriorating cliff.
2013
September 26, 2013
A family-owned camp of small houses overlooking Stonewall Beach is set to be moved due to severe erosion.
The Chilmark zoning board of appeals voted unanimously on Wednesday to allow a house and several outbuildings to be relocated at the Langmuir property on Greenhouse Lane.
June 13, 2013
Each family has its own Vineyard specialty, a beloved summer-after-summer tradition that everyone cherishes and remembers during those empty winter days in February. Sometimes it is the patriarch’s birthday party. Sometimes it is the matriarch’s birthday party, especially if the house belonged to her family. Sometimes it is a Fourth of July or a Labor Day event when far-flung family members assemble to celebrate. One of our friends, who is not French, gives a lavish annual dinner party with many guests in honor of Bastille Day.
April 30, 2013
A small cottage perilously close to the edge at Stonewall Beach in Chilmark has been demolished to prevent it from falling over the cliff, town building inspector Leonard Jason Jr. said Tuesday.
The demolition of the structure, which contains a bedroom, began Monday, Mr. Jason said. By Tuesday afternoon the demolition on Greenhouse Lane was complete. The debris was trucked off to the Edgartown landfill.
April 4, 2013
The Chilmark conservation commission voted this week to allow a house and several outbuildings dangerously close to the edge of a cliff overlooking Stonewall Beach to be relocated.
