Not the electrician Rick Harris, the spec builder Richard. He had some success building in town but now the few projects he’s still involved in are bank owned and going nowhere. There’s one on Butternut Hollow, jammed up to the Merritt and swampland and one at 12 Ledge Road in Old Greenwich, now owned by Ulster Bank. Ledge was priced at $3.795 in 2006 and is now down to $2.995. Even at its new price, I’d hesitate. When I first saw it I reported that I’d never imagined I could dislike a post and beam house but Harris had made that nightmare a reality. I’ve never figured out what happened to this man in the past eight years but each house he built seemed odder than the one before. If there was a view available, he’d turn the house away from it. If he could site a house away from its neighbor, he’d cram it in so that each could stare into the other’s master bedroom. If his name had been Zero Mostel, I’d have thought he’d figured out a way to get rich by failing. As it is, I think he just lost his touch. Back to Canada for him.
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6 Comments
June 24, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Did you really mean R.I.P. or just AWOL?
June 24, 2009 at 3:18 pm
R.I.P. in a business sense only
June 24, 2009 at 3:50 pm
In regards to 12 Ledge Rd.- You hit the nail on the head!!
June 24, 2009 at 5:54 pm
any idea what is happening with his house on Indian Point Lane? I think he still lives there.
June 24, 2009 at 8:04 pm
He built it as spec, couldn’t get his price (this is the house that, given a view down Long Island Sound, he placed a closet blocking the view and faced the house towards a tear-down across the street) and moved his family in a few years ago. I don’t know if he’s still there.
June 25, 2009 at 3:16 pm
think he has been doing stuff in Florida. This might explain the odd direction his development style has gone. didn’t he develop those few houses on Tomac lane some years back?
Merritt entrance ramp mansion by Floridian also i believe.
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