Carpenter Harvey Moore and his crew were the builders.īeston intended to use the cottage as a retreat to visit whenever he could, but soon found he did not want to leave. Having spent considerable time on the Cape after completing a magazine assignment called "The Wardens of Cape Cod", about the Coast Guard officers of the Outer Cape, Beston drew up floor plans for a house on the dunes two miles south of the Nauset Coast Guard station in Eastham, Massachusetts. Over time, the structure also came to be known as "The Outermost House." Beston (born Henry Beston Sheahan in 1888 died 1968) named the cottage "the Fo'castle" because its ten windows and its commanding presence on top of a dune overlooking the open Atlantic Ocean gave him the feeling of being aboard a ship. It chronicles a season spent living on the dunes of Cape Cod.īeston's "Fo'castle," the 20x16 beach cottage which served as the setting for the book The Outermost House, was built in June 1925, and claimed by the sea in February 1978. It was published in 1928 by Doubleday and Doran and is now published by Henry Holt and Company in New York City. The Outermost House is a book by naturalist writer Henry Beston.
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