This project entailed the restoration and additions to a c. 1885 Queen Anne style shingle and brick house on a waterfront location in Westport, CT. The original owner William Eno was born in 1858 and was responsible for the establishment modern traffic safety rules. The house originally sat on nearly 40 acres of landscaped grounds, whose design has been attributed to the Landscape Architect Frederick L. Olmstead. Over the last century the lands surrounding the house had been sold off and developed, leaving the house isolated on an internal 2 acre island of land, nearly completely cutoff from its original connection to the Long Island Sound. The house suffered greatly over the second half of the 20th century and had fallen into a state of serious disrepair when a group of developers attempted to renovate the house in the late 1980’s, which only resulted in an inappropriate architectural style and elements on the house. Much of the original fabric was lost during this earlier renovation to ‘modern’ replacements. The current owner purchased the home from the developers and lived in it for a number of years with the long term plan of returning the house to its original splendor. In preparation for the project, the owners purchased two adjacent properties that were once part of the original house’s grounds to ensure the proper scale of land for the house and connection to the Sound. Before starting the renovation the client moved out of the house to live in one of the houses