Splendid Craftsman On The East Coast

Quarter-sawn oak cabinets with a Stickley vibe are the anchor for this open, multi-zoned kitchen.

- Patricia Poore

GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, is on Cape Ann, a rocky land’s-end point northeast of Boston. Land’s end for Gloucester is Eastern Point, a narrow peninsula jutting into the Atlantic Ocean. Here, a small 1960s A-frame summer home stood on a unique spot, a quiet sanctuary overlooking Niles Pond and the ocean beyond. “I love this place,” says Barbara H. Bjornson, M.D., an on cologist with wide-ranging interests. “I bought the property in 1993, and always thought that I would build a house that would only enhance it.”