A Farmhouse Looks for a Home
The barns were demolished, and Mr. Davis planned to gut-renovate the Greek Revival, turning it into a guesthouse to accompany the 8-bedroom 11-bath main house, which was to have an elevator, an outdoor pool, a pool house and a tennis court.
But the Foursquare still needed a home. First he tried giving it away. When that didn’t work, he got permission to demolish it. Then the Peconic Land Trust stepped in, offering to trundle the 100-ton structure not far away to a 10.7-acre patch of Read more [...]