Until the 1940s, it was still used as a cow pasture and orchard. The stone and iron gates at the corner of Anawan Drive and Boston Neck Road are left over from the days when Anawan Cliffs was a summer colony and the gates would be closed and locked on the first of September every year. Anyone who had to return for one reason or another would have a key and lock the gates behind them. Today, the gates remain open except for one 24-hour period each year when they are closed as a legal reminder that this is still private property. Anawan is one of the most consistently valued neighborhoods.
Houses range in style from colonials to ranches to contemporaries.
Very little waterfront has come on the market since I remember. Everything that's been on the market has been off the water. If they're on the water, they don't want to leave. The sale is pending on a second water-view lot on Cliff Drive. The three-bedroom house, built in 1962, had been on the market for over a year.