This is the first of a series of short videos I made while walking around Red Roof May 2010. The digital video starts in the dining room overlooking Gloucester Harbor and finishes in the library--affectionately know as the 'dugout'. This clip is not professional.
Above is a second short digital clip. This clip goes from the pewter room down the hallway to the garden room and out onto the upper terrace overlooking the bay
The third short digital clip explores the rear grounds of Red Roof. The clip starts on the upper terrace and goes down to the Mexican terrace through the covered boat house and out by the salt water pool. Harry Sleeper's Beauport can be seen in the distance.
The library or "dugout" was added to the house in 1909 (Red Roof was built in 1902). The rooms, which consist of the main library and two small rooms on either side of a short hallway that leads from the house, are meant to be fireproof. The walls were cinder block, the shelves metal, and the roof terra cotta. I estimate that there were approximately five thousand books in the house with shelves of various design in almost every room not just the dugout. History, philosophy, economics, politics, literature, money and monetary issues, and art all were to be found on the shelves giving an insight to the mental scope of APA. The above photo is courtesy of Axel Jansen taken May 2007.
