Antique Real Photo Postcard, circa Pre-1920. This almost certainly one-of-a-kind image was found in a New England antique store. Maine to be precise. The somewhat rustic cottage with trees in the foreground with the sign "Woodholm" near the top is very likely one of the cottages referred to below, or at least part of the estate. Divided back, CYKO stampbox, unused. Condition: Tiny edge chip and pin hole. Comments: (From the Manchester Historical Museum web page.) Starting in the late 1880s and continuing through the end of the First World War, wealthy families from as near as Boston, and as far as St. Louis, Chicago and New York City, discovered Manchester and began to purchase property and build far from modest summer cottages. Our exhibit provides a close look at just a few of the more than forty such cottages that were built during this period. Many were given exotic names: Woodholm, The Rocks, The Marble Palace, Clipston, Crowhurst, Sharksmouth, Sunny Waters, Apple Trees, Edgecliff and Lilleothea. The architecture was as eclectic as the names: Shingle and Stick Style, Colonial Revival, Norman French, Classical and English Tudor. The Gilded Age in America was an era when the riches amassed during the Industrial Revolution were being spent enjoying the Good Life trips abroad, yachts and private railroad cars, lavish entertaining, servants at your beck and call and grandiose summer cottages! No destination was more desirable than a small seaside community on the North Shore of Boston a town whose dramatic coastline, sandy beaches, cooling breezes and many amenities were the perfect anecdote to the sweltering misery of summer in the city. Welcome to Manchester-by-the-Sea!