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AN INTERVIEW WITH THE HOMEOWNER
The construction on this house gave
We began our home search just a lot of fine craftsmen the oppor-
looking for something interest- tunity to be creative because Tom
ing ... something with character. worked right with them, constantly.
We didn’t want the cookie cutter They knew that Tom wanted things
house that looked like everyone that were unique, so whenever
else’s … and we wanted proper- they had an idea for something dif-
ty. We found that unique space ferent they told him about it. Sitting
at 750 Burr Street. The home was down with an architect helped us
originally built in the late 1800s as to envision the potential, like creat-
a stable and converted to a ing the master bedroom suite. The
house in the 1940s. We thought addition included a large room for
that the house was beautiful but the bed, allowing us to turn what
we also had a vision for how we had been the bedroom into a spa-
could make it our own and get cious sitting area leading to a pri-
more enjoyment from it. While vate deck. Along with creating a
keeping the historic character of master bedroom suite, we also en-
the house, we blended it with larged and modernized the Kitch-
modernized renovations and top- en, and added a family room.
of-the line detail.
We’ve been told that New York
gangster, Dutch Schultz, may
have buried money on the prop-
erty before his murder in 1935. I
guess there was a special on The
History Channel about it
(laughing). While we were reno-
vating, someone asked if they
could go over the property with
metal detectors. No treasure yet,
though.
www.VANDERBLUE .com 203-259-8326
The construction on this house gave
We began our home search just a lot of fine craftsmen the oppor-
looking for something interest- tunity to be creative because Tom
ing ... something with character. worked right with them, constantly.
We didn’t want the cookie cutter They knew that Tom wanted things
house that looked like everyone that were unique, so whenever
else’s … and we wanted proper- they had an idea for something dif-
ty. We found that unique space ferent they told him about it. Sitting
at 750 Burr Street. The home was down with an architect helped us
originally built in the late 1800s as to envision the potential, like creat-
a stable and converted to a ing the master bedroom suite. The
house in the 1940s. We thought addition included a large room for
that the house was beautiful but the bed, allowing us to turn what
we also had a vision for how we had been the bedroom into a spa-
could make it our own and get cious sitting area leading to a pri-
more enjoyment from it. While vate deck. Along with creating a
keeping the historic character of master bedroom suite, we also en-
the house, we blended it with larged and modernized the Kitch-
modernized renovations and top- en, and added a family room.
of-the line detail.
We’ve been told that New York
gangster, Dutch Schultz, may
have buried money on the prop-
erty before his murder in 1935. I
guess there was a special on The
History Channel about it
(laughing). While we were reno-
vating, someone asked if they
could go over the property with
metal detectors. No treasure yet,
though.
www.VANDERBLUE .com 203-259-8326
