LEFT: Main Street in Harwich Port, Cape Cod, offers everything from boutique shops to fine dining RIGHT: Nantucket’s Brant Point Light Station overlooks the harbour


restored by the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (ccmht.org), a small charity that rents the properties out by the week during the summer. “Tere was a flourishing of


innovative modernist architecture, built as experiments. Te peak of this was in the 1940s and by the 1970s there were 100 or so modern homes. Many of them survive; some are privately owned, others, like the Trust’s, are leased from the National Park Service,” says Peter McMahon, founding director of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust. Te pleasures of the Outer Cape


are simple yet exquisite; the striking sunsets, swimming in its ponds (freshwater lakes) and hiking in wooded trails along what is now the Cape Cod National Seashore, a huge nature reserve. Follow this northwards and you eventually reach Race Point, with the wild Atlantic


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WHERE TO STAY THE ENVOY HOTEL


Located near the airport in Boston, the Envoy Hotel caters for business during the week and leisure visitors at weekends. The rooftop bar, with its wonderful views of the resurgent Seaport District, attracts long lines of glam wannabes in the evenings; hotel guests can walk straight in. From US$254 (£195) per night. theenvoyhotel.com


CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT: The Envoy Hotel; Kugel/Gips House; Summercamp; Nobnocket Boutique Inn


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CAPE COD MODERN HOUSE TRUST The trust currently has three historic buildings near Wellfleet that can be rented by the week: the Kugel/Gips House, Weidlinger House and Hatch Cottage. Prices vary from US$2,750 (£2,095) to US$3,750 (£2,857) per week, June to September. ccmht.org


NOBNOCKET BOUTIQUE INN On Martha’s Vineyard in the town of Vineyard Haven, this boutique hotel has been tastefully renovated by its English owners. Rooms are spacious, and attention to detail is exemplary. Two-night minimum stay in high season with breakfast; from US$350 (£269) per night. nobnocket.com


SUMMERCAMP In Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard, this historic hotel has been given a playful makeover with a summer camp theme. Facilities are far from spartan though, and Oak Bluffs’ bars and restaurants are a stroll away. Two- or three-night minimum stay in high season; from US$329 (£253) a night. summercamphotel.com


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