PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (AP) — The only home on a small island in Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay has been sold. The 600-square-foot (55-square-meter), off-the-electrical-grid cottage on Patience Island — ...

There are only about a dozen homes on Florida’s isolated Cook Island, and now one of them is for sale. Located at 3 W. Cook Burg Pne., the beach cottage was built in 1985 and is truly “off-the-grid” ...

WILTON, N.Y. (NEWS10) – U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant spent the last few weeks of his life in a cottage that now overlooks Route 9 and the SUNY Adirondack Wilton campus. As of this week, a new ...

Location, location, location says it all for an all-season floating tiny house on a lake. Over in the small town of Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval, about 30 minutes north of Quebec City, Canada, is yet ...

Off-grid power technology is getting better quickly, and this means it’s never been easier to enjoy running water and electric power for lighting and small cooking jobs in cabins and lakeside cottages ...

In Maine, large swaths of untouched land, coupled with a strong Yankee independent streak, have lured generations of hardy souls to build homes off the grid. Now, rising electricity costs are sparking ...

The Shingle Style keeps coming back. Or maybe it never went away. In 1955, Vincent Scully vigorously investigated this late 19th-century manifestation—with its picturesque vernacular architecture of ...

Peeking through woodland trees on the edge of a serene lake lies a small Gothic cottage, which looks like it’s plucked straight out of the pages of a storybook. In fact, that’s exactly the intention ...

The asking price for the tiny home — the only one on tiny Patience Island in Narragansett Bay — was originally $399k PORTSMOUTH, R.I. — The only home on a small island in Rhode Island’s Narragansett ...