House at Rosslyn

Over the years I've come to distinguish between "house" and "home" when thinking, speaking, and writing about Rosslyn.

In simplest terms, the house at Rosslyn refers to a circa 1820 brick building fronting on Lake Champlain where Susan, Carley, and I reside in Essex, New York.

The historic home is a more expansive, inclusive, and subjective reference. It encompasses not only the aforementioned brick building, but also Rosslyn’s boathouse, icehouse, carriage barn, ornamental and edible gardens, orchard, waterfront, backland, and historic heritage all intimately braided together with my own profoundly personal notion of home (aka “homeness“).

All of the updates below are concerned with the dwelling itself (as distinct from the outbuildings, etc.) although some also explore overlaps and distinctions between the two related ideas.