In the Thousand Islands
Located in the beautiful Thousand Islands
About Casa Blanca From the book, The Summer Cottage—Retreats of the 1000 Islands ©2010 Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. A grand Gilded Age cottage on Cherry Island, Casa Blanca bears the imprint of Louis Marx. An American tobacco and sugar planter in Cuba, Marx maintained a residence in New York City along with his river cottage. With a sense of the theatrical, he installed an electric fountain on the front lawn, which had been exhibited at the World's Fair in Chicago. The event was noted in The