Grey Gables was an estate in Bourne, Massachusetts

Bourne, Massachusetts

Bourne is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 18,721 at the 2000 census.For geographic and demographic information on specific parts of the town of Bourne, please see the articles on Bourne , Buzzards Bay, Monument Beach, Pocasset, Sagamore, and Sagamore...

 owned by Grover Cleveland

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 that served as his Summer White House

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 from 1888-1896.

Cleveland purchased Grey Gables after unsuccessfully trying to purchase Harbor Lane, a home in Marion, Massachusetts

Marion, Massachusetts

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where he had spent his previous four summers.

The property was later converted to an inn known as the Grey Gables Ocean House. The inn was destroyed by fire on the morning of December 11, 1973.