Side-by-side lakefront cottages! Outdoor space galore!

Generous lakeside lawn! Dock and mooring good for water sports! Our two-cottage compound is ideal for an extended family vacation. During midsummer we rent the two cottages as a unit. Each cottage is fully equipped with kitchen and bath (two baths, in one case), fireplace, and screened porch. They share a large lawn with about 200 feet of level lakefront. If you are like our family, the group includes some active, athletic members and some who prefer to spend their vacation napping in the hammock or doing jigsaw puzzles. This set-up gives you a great combination of family togetherness and privacy.

Our 8-acre property is next to Menteth Creek and looks due south, toward Bare Hill and the receding hills of Naples. We enjoy a stunning view from the west side of Canandaigua Lake!

This property has been in the same family since 1922. The Stone Cottage was built in 1969, replacing an earlier cottage. It has a great room with stone fireplace, cathedral ceiling, living-dining room, and an open stair up to the master suite. The kitchen has a pass-through to the screened dining porch with built-in grill. The living room has a sliding glass door to an open porch enclosed by a low stone wall. There is a rear porch off the kitchen with clotheslines for bathing suit and towel drying. The two first-floor bedrooms have twin beds and a full bath. One of these includes a window air conditioner. The upstairs master suite has a king size bed and a bath with shower. This house also has laundry facilities. Overall occupancy is six, and square footage is about 1600. An extra bonus - a grand piano!

The smaller cottage was built in 1948 for our grandmother -- we call it Gram's House. If you visited your grandmother at a lakefront cabin, this cottage will seem very familiar. It has a large screened porch across the whole front of the house, with a dining room table that expands to seat ten -- also a chaise longue and wicker chairs, and a pass-through to the kitchen. The living room and kitchen are knotty pine with a stone fireplace. The house has three bedrooms, one with queen, one with twins, and one with a twin bed, plus one full-size bath. Occupancy is five, and square footage is about 900 square feet.

The property has level lawns surrounding the cottages, plenty of parking space, and a large open field between the cottages and West Lake Road. There is a tennis court (fair condition, shared) on the property, and lawn area for croquet, badminton, or frisbee. Our lakefront has a stone breakwall in front of the houses, a 16-foot dock with ladder, a swim raft and a shale beach (perfect for stone skipping). Lake bottom is shale. Visitors will have the use of one rowboat, two two-person kayaks, and two one-person kayaks. We do not offer the use of any motorized boats or a hoist. However, we do have a mooring for motorboats, and past guests have brought their own or rented a boat for daytime use from a nearby marina. The shale beach area is level, so you can back a trailer to the lake and launch your small or mid-sized boat from there. The property has plenty of mature shade trees and perennial gardens. We have a large and heavily used bonfire spot near the beach. Indoors, there is no dishwasher, but we do have a washer and dryer, streaming TV, internet access, WiFi, and a VCR and DVD player.

We only rent for a few weeks a year, typically in July and August, though we sometimes add some May, June, or September weeks to our schedule. We do allow up to three cats and/or dogs pursuant to a pet fee. Dogs must be well-behaved and under 50 lbs.





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