Their searchings eventually uncovered the sites of eight houses, four boathouses and a charcoal kiln.

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Rather than the flat bottoms that characterize most traditional boathouses, the Pearl would have a bobber-like shape.

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The west island holds two boathouses and the main home, a 5-bedroom, 4-bath stone house built in 1934.

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The two other lifeboats are expected to arrive once their boathouses have been built, with plans to complete them by next October.

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At least one home had 2 to 3 feet of ice spill through its patio glass doors, and some boathouses along the lake were destroyed, he said.

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