Gray Gables was an estate in Bourne, Massachusetts, owned by President Grover Cleveland that served as his Summer White House from 1893 to 1896.
The property at the time consisted of 110 acres (45 ha), 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of beachfront on Buzzards Bay, the main house, and a hunting lodge.
[2] He had initially tried to purchase Harbor Lane, a home in Marion, Massachusetts, where he had spent his previous four summers, but decided not to after the owners raised the price.
[3] In 1892, Cleveland ran for what would be his second term as president, and an electric telegraph was installed in the house so he could follow the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
[6] Following his presidency, the Cleveland family continued to summer at Gray Gables until 1904, when his daughter Ruth died of diphtheria at the age of 12.