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Twin Tudors and Their Mini-Me
Cottages and Bungalows
|February / March 2025
A love of Tudor homes and literature come together in the most charming way.
The story of our home in Wisconsin, and its identical twin next door, is that they were built in 1937 by a father for his two daughters.
Both homes feature the classic “cat slide” roofline and arched doorway exteriors of Tudor cottages. Much of the original woodwork and plasterwork, complete with three detailed arches, builtin arched dining room cabinets, and arched coves above the bathtubs remain inside.
I am a lifelong book lover, chronic collector of all things literary, and youth librarian, so I knew when we bought this storybook cottage it was the perfect place for a Little Free Library. The charm of the exterior that had me fall in love at first sight (particularly that Hobbit-y doorway) made me want to build a matching library to share stories.
This story is from the February / March 2025 edition of Cottages and Bungalows.
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