New England Home: Spring 2022

Written by Paula Body | Photography by Ellen McDermott

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While many couples opt for a smaller house once the children have gone off on their own, this husband and wife decided to stay put. Their center-hall colonial on a pretty piece of land in Greenwich still made them happy.

Back when the kids were small, architect Thomas Kligerman and interior designer Terri Ricci had undertaken a thorough renovation. “The house had this episodic history, growing across the site,” Kligerman says. The original structure was a small, stone-clad dwelling built in 1898. Sometime in the 1920s, the two-story colonial-style part of the house was built, then in the 1980s another piece was added. The renovation brought the disparate pieces together. “We kept the general footprint,” Kliger- man explains, “but we reworked the 1980s portion to be more in keeping with the 1920s part, changing interior moldings, redoing rooflines, putting on shutters, and replacing windows with ones that had better proportions.”