 She occasionally stayed in the house, but preferred her own small, rustic summer camp in a rural area of southern New Hampshire that she used as a writing retreat and for visits with her relatives.The Perkins house has since been sold and divided into eight apartments and is now known as Perkins Manor.In 1898, the Andersons came into the possession of near the outskirts of Boston that had been in Isabel's family since the mid-19th century.