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the rather sharp roof which has never leaked seriously in the
worst hurricane. Some of the ideas embodied in it have been
taken from dwellings in Jamaica, Hawaii, Cuba and the Philip-
pines; others are my own, and it is not like anything in the heav-
ens above, the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth. 4


The Sentinels, home of Charles Torrey Simpson (HASF x-763-54)


 In Lemon City: Pioneering on Biscayne Bay, 1850-1925,
Thelma Peters simply describes the Simpson house as a frame struc-
ture of two stories that was built seven or eight feet off the ground,
with a basement enclosed in lattice.25
 While Simpson was justifiably proud of his house, for the most
part his thoughts were drawn to the surroundings:

 There were two magnificent Caribbean pines in front of the
 house, eighty feet high and in the full glory of robust life. I called
 them the Sentinels, and from them I named my house. I felt they
 would watch over and guard me and mine. But the glory of the
 place was a couple of acres of fine young hammock that lay
 within a few rods of my door containing a large variety of mostly