CHATHAM, Mass. -- It was the last of 12 beach houses to survive severe erosion on Chatham's North Beach, but a weekend Nor'easter has finished off the cottage.
The house, owned by William Hammatt, was separated Sunday from the five steel beams that held it and swept away to a sandbar on Pleasant Bay.
The erosion began after a 2007 storm that created a new inlet through a barrier beach that had shielded North Beach from the open ocean.
Hammatt tells The Cape Cod Times that he's now turning his attention to removing the remains of the house and the steel beams from the beach.
The other 11 cottages in the so-called First Village had been demolished or removed last June, but Hammatt was able to spend a final summer on the beach.
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