If you ask to see the Yeoman Cottage at Cape Arundel, you might be shown three different houses. They are also known as Inglesea, The Rocks, and the Yoeman-Powers Cottage.

Inglesea Cottage, which still stands at the corner of Ocean Ave and Haverhill has erroneously been attributed to Joseph Yeoman but neither he nor his wife Henrietta ever had a cottage there. Inglesea Cottage was built for Dr. Fred Brooks on an empty lot he purchased from Mrs. Henrietta Rowland Yeoman and James Young Smith Nichols in 1891. The cottage is often connected to a popular later occupant, Miss Lucy Fay.

The Rocks, known also as Yeoman Cottage or The George G. Davis Cottage, still stands at the corner of Ocean Ave and Atlantic. It was built in 1891 for the well-known NY cotton broker, Joseph Yeoman, an Englishman. He died at his winter home at 120 Madison Avenue NY, NY, in 1895 at the age of 62. His wife, Henrietta, mentioned above, used the cottage for a few years after his death but then sold it to George G. Davis and summered at the Old Fort Inn for several years.

Henrietta Yeoman, widow of Joseph, purchased a cottage for herself on Summit Ave in 1905. Lorin F. Deland, husband of Margaret Deland the authoress, had built the cottage in 1900 as an investment. It was reported in The Wave that the Delands arrived at Cape Arundel early for the 1901 season so that Lorin could “superintend the finishing of the delightful cottage he has built since last year at Cape Arundel, it will be occupied this season by Mr. D. D. Fitzgerald of Savannah.”

Just to confuse me, George G. Davis, mentioned above, also bought the Yeoman Cottage on Summit Ave along with several adjacent lots. His daughter Madelaine Davis Powers inherited them. She and her husband, Dr. George H. Powers of Brookline MA purchased additional lots on Summit Ave and sometime after 1924, moved the Deland-Yeoman-Powers Cottage from its original location seen in the old photo, to a lot at 17 Summit Ave and completely renovated it.

Thank you for your patience with this convoluted THROWBACK. I want to correct the record for future historians so they might avoid the befuddled state I have found myself in regarding these particular Cape Arundel Cottages for months now.