A cottage near John o' Groats has become the base for one of...
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A fisherman's cottage near John o' Groats has become the base for one of Britain's most celebrated sculptors as he works on one of his most important commissions.
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By TERI BORSETI  HALIFAX  Charles Lewis remembers when his mother first bought the house in which he now lives. "We came from Fields Corner in Dorchester and this was our summer house at first. That was in the 60's. She's gone now and I live here year-round," Lewis said.
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By Edited by Katie Stirling  THANKS to Claire Collins, of Ayr, who wins my weekly tenner with this daft picture.  If you have a funny internet image, why not share it with us? Please include your full postal address.  (c) 2006 Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK).
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By Robert Brooks  The Duke of Northumberland's plan to build homes on a swathe of ancient farmland has sparked a revolt in the surrounding parish.
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ROCKPORT, Mass. -- A sign by a shaded doorway in this tourist village discreetly announces "Hannah Jumper lived here." She also died in the white clapboard house in the mid-1800s, collapsing at age 84 -- but her spirit has never left.
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CUMMING, Ga. - Three generations of James Wheeler's family were sheltered by a farmhouse built by his grandfather about 80 years ago...
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By Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 18--From the street, it's a nondescript house in an old part of Rochester Hills.   But beneath this small home near Auburn Road and John R is a sleek, updated basement with a modern recording studio.
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The Lincoln Cottage's power is the power of association, its contact with a historical presence; we literally walk in a great figureâs footsteps.
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By Raymond Hainey  Naming a new development in the village of Insch, Aberdeenshire, will be child's play.  Tulloch Homes have asked the local primary school to find a name for the site, which will have three and four-bed bungalows and villas.
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I'm not long back from a week off, with my young family, in one of my favourite spots in Wales - the delightful former fishing village of Little Haven in Pembrokeshire.
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By Blair Anthony Robertson, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 22--When Mark and Janet Thew bought their lot in Loomis in 1999 and built their Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired house the following year, they thought they were putting down roots in a rural paradise.
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Travel: If you want to find a cottage for the festive season, now is the time to book. Georgia Brown offers tips to finding the perfect holiday property online.
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Like many people approaching retirement, Kathryn Scruggs and her husband dream of a second home in which to spend leisure time. Her dream is a house in Lake of the Woods on a 550-acre lake in Orange County, Va., only about an hour and 15 minutes from her home in Arlington.
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By Monica Mercer, Herald-Journal, Spartanburg, S.C.  Dec. 10--The owners of the historic Block House say they don't mind  inviting strangers into their home when a curious knock comes.
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By JAMES MILLS HIS home is a rickety shack surrounded by junk. Yet this 70-year-old Irish tramp is the unlikeliest of property millionaires.
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By Sharon Kiley Mack, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Dec.
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Residents who live near writer Ernest Hemingway's former home in the resort town of Ketchum want to buy the house and move it to settle a dispute with its owner, The Nature Conservancy.