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| Top 10 Cottage Communities |  |  First Addition, Portland, Oregon | | Bungalow Heaven, Pasadena, California | | Willo, Phoenix, Arizona | | Old West Austin, Austin, Texas | | Bryn Mawr, Minneapolis, Minnesota | | Cottage Home, Indianapolis, Indiana | | Albemarle Park, Asheville, North Carolina | | Historic Kenwood, St. Petersburg, Florida | | Del Ray, Alexandria, Virginia | | Five Sisters, Burlington, Vermont |
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| Our Top 10 Cottage Communities |
| What makes a great neighborhood? For us it's cottage charm, civic pride, and a close-knit feeling. Here's our pick of places we'd like to call home. |
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| photography: Buff Strickland |
Sidewalks and front porches encourage neighborly chats between the residents of the Five Sisters community in Burlington, Vermont.
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• First Addition, Portland, OR
• Bungalow Heaven, Pasadena, CA
• Willo, Phoenix, AZ
• Old West Austin, Austin TX
• Bryn Mawr, Minneapolis, MN
• Cottage Home, Indianapolis, IN
• Albemarle Park, Asheville, NC
• Historic Kenwood, St. Petersburg, FL
• Del Ray, Alexandria, VA
• Five Sisters, Burlington, VT
The Idea
Find 10 standout cottage communities—places with porches and gardens, parks and playgrounds; streets where you can stroll to locally owned shops and restaurants; areas with architecture that makes your heart skip a beat; places where neighbors know your name and are trustworthy, dependable, and free for a cookout on Friday night.These qualities are nearly impossible to quantify. You can't plug income, real estate, crime, and school stats into a computer and expect it to spit out a bunch of neighborhoods. We went about our search the best way we could, by talking to folks. We followed their leads to hundreds of cottage communities around the country.
photography: Jerome Cookson
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By their very nature, some older, more established neighborhoods rose to the top. More recently established communities—New Urbanist-inspired creations known as Traditional Neighborhood Developments (TNDs)—simply couldn't compete. Yet.What truly inspired us were the comeback stories of residents whose older communities—the very places the TNDs model—had suffered post-World War II urban blight only to be revived by dedicated homeowners. Historic Kenwood in St. Petersburg and Cottage Home in Indianapolis are two places that have made remarkable turnarounds, as their rising real estate prices attest. Which brings us to an important point: Home prices are up, especially in great cottage communities. When you buy into one of these neighborhoods, though, you're getting so much more than house and lot. In the broadest sense, you're getting a home. |
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