Kassandra's House is For Sale!

Kassandra (my main character from Seaborn, Saltwater Witch and Sea Throne) lived in the Studebaker Mansion, the big house at the end of Atlantic Avenue in North Hampton.  My version of it is fictitious, but this is a real place, a beautiful Victorian mansion overlooking the Atlantic--and now it's for sale!

http://www.seacoastliving.com/property/listings/Homes/NH/North_Hampton/743022

Now, where can I scrounge up 4.5 million and $46k/year in property taxes...oh, yeah, and another couple million to furnish the 24 rooms...

I posted a while back on the subject of using real world residences in your fiction:

Where do your characters live?

If you're writing in this world and not some other, do you have real places in mind when you write something like, Joe turned left at Nor'east Lane, and made his way down the sandy path to his cottage on the beach?  And is it ever a real place?  Some place you like?  Your favorite house in the world?

Do your characters live somewhere nearby?  Are you neighbors?  Maybe a better question: would you like to be?

For the longest time, one of my main characters, Kassandra, has lived in a great big house at the end of Atlantic Avenue in North Hampton, New Hampshire.  I've had a particular house in mind from the beginning, a place in Little Boars Head, one of my favorites along the coast of New Hampshire.  All completely fictional, of course, but this is the house I imagine when I need to think about where Kassandra lives.

We were renting a place in North Hampton for a couple years, and all of this seaborn stuff comes from that too short a time when I could hear--from any open window--the Atlantic tides coming in.

Comments

[Jeff]

I think that place would make a smashing good artists' colony

[Chris Howard]

Perfect! Okay, it's settled then. I need to get $20 million or so together, buy the place and start an artists' colony.

[Newport]

Kassandra is very beautiful city. Thanks, you are providing such a good services here. Surely the demand of homes will be high here since this city is situated at the bank of such a beautiful ocean.