WHAT: A cedar-shingled lake house with four bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms  SIZE: 2,775 square feet total  PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $323  SETTING: Grand Isle is a town of 2,000 people on an island of the same name on Lake Champlain. The island is about a quarter-mile wide at its narrowest and two miles at its widest, with the Green Mountains to the east and the Adirondacks to the south and west. Most of it remains rural, with dairy and sheep farms being slowly replaced by orchards and vineyards.  This house is on 10 acres on Ladd Point, a peninsula at the northern end of the island, and has 400 feet of Lake Champlain frontage. Neighboring properties are on similarly large lots. Burlington, the largest city in Vermont, is 30 miles away and has an airport; Montreal is about 70 miles away.  INDOORS: The house was built in 1983 and updated within the last two years. A contemporary take on a shingled farmhouse, it has views of Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains and Mount Mansfield throughout.  The sunny living room has a fireplace with a glass tile surround, as well as a window seat. Floors are oak with a dark patina. The formal dining room has sliding glass doors opening to a lakeside deck, and there’s a breakfast nook in the kitchen nestled into intersecting walls of windows. Both the breakfast nook and dining room have sleek red light fixtures designed by Vicente Garcia Jimenez for Foscarini.  Appliances in the kitchen are stainless steel. The custom-made white cabinets are by Plato Woodwork of Minnesota, as are the built-ins in the master suite. The counters are a mottled, grayish Italian granite.  Bedrooms are on the second and third floors. The second-floor master has a walk-in closet and floor-to-ceiling windows facing the lake and mountains, as well as an en-suite bathroom with a separate tub and shower. The third-floor bedrooms have skylights and pitched wood-paneled ceilings. One of them leads up to a loft with lake views.  OUTDOOR SPACE: About three of the property’s 10.1 acres are cleared and fenced, with heirloom cider apple trees and a garden with raised beds. The rest of the acreage is wooded. In addition to the lakeside deck, there’s a deck on another side of the house.  TAXES: Approximately $16,950 a year  CONTACT: Franz Rosenberger, Coldwell Banker Islands Realty, (802) 777-7646; lakechamplainrealestate.com  WHAT: A 1905 house with six bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms  SIZE: 4,396 square feet total  PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $204  SETTING: This house is in the Cherokee Triangle, a historic neighborhood of grand houses set around the 409-acre Cherokee Park, which was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Architectural styles in the neighborhood include Queen Anne, Italianate, Second Empire and Richardsonian Romanesque, often set back from the curb on shaded lots. The gateway to Cherokee Park is about a block away, while a commercial strip of restaurants, bars, banks and other businesses is a couple of blocks in the other direction.  INDOORS: The three-story brick house with a slate roof and a turret was renovated within the last 10 years. Original features include hardwood floors, molding and stained- and leaded-glass throughout. The switchback entry hall staircase and newel posts are original, too.  Common areas are on the first floor. The living room has a brick fireplace framed by white columns and bookshelves; the adjoining dining room also has a fireplace. The updated kitchen has stainless-steel appliances. Off the kitchen is a sitting room, also with a fireplace, and a breakfast room.  The breakfast room opens to a screened porch with a vaulted ceiling, skylights and ceiling fans. Bedrooms are on the second and third floors. The second-floor master has a brick fireplace and opens to a bathroom with a soaking tub and a glass shower; a large laundry room is also on this floor. There is a detached two-car garage and a parking pad.  OUTDOOR SPACE: The house is on .13 acres, with a shaded brick back patio and a fountain.  TAXES: Approximately $11,850 a year  CONTACT: Sandy Gulick and Jay Gulick, Kentucky Select Properties, (502) 592-8664 /(502) 296-5514; kyselectproperties.com  WHAT: A shingled cottage with three bedrooms and two and a half bathrooms  SIZE: 2,240 square feet total  PRICE PER SQUARE FOOT: $401  SETTING: Cannon Beach is a coastal community in the northwest corner of Oregon, 80 miles from Portland and 200 from Seattle. A tourist destination, the town of about 1,700 people swells in summer. This house is a few lots from the beach and a block off a street that winds up to the galleries, shops and restaurants downtown.  INDOORS: The two-story Craftsman-style house was built in 2000. Designed to recall an early 20th-century beach cottage, its interior is nearly all wood, with beamed ceilings and beadboard walls.  Common areas are on the first floor. The living room has a fireplace, while the dining area and kitchen are in a hallway-like space divided by an arm of the kitchen counter. Windows throughout the first floor have partial views of the water and of Haystack Rock, a 235-foot-tall hump rising from the water. The first floor also has a wet bar with glass shelves, and a den opening to a deck. There is a laundry area with a large tub sink, designed to make cleaning up after the beach easier.  The master suite is on the first floor. The other two bedrooms are upstairs, as is a family room, all of which have pitched ceilings and more substantive views than downstairs.  OUTDOOR SPACE: The house is on a little more than a tenth of an acre, set back from the street, with a front porch and a landscaped yard. The property has a two-car detached garage.  TAXES: Approximately $4,275 a year  CONTACT: Karen Meili, Windermere Stellar, (503) 440-5806; karenmeili.withwre.com
This week, homes on the water in Cannon Beach, Oregon, and Grand Isle, Vermont, and a one made of brick in Louisville, Kentucky.