Oh, for the good old days!

Surely there’s a 1920s pony in here, somewhere

Time was — 2005, say — when one could take a 1920 house, bring in the services of a popular-in-all-the-right-circles architect like Austin Patterson to do terrible things to it and then, five years later, hand it over to David Ogilvy, who would complete the circus wheel by vouching for its fine taste and passing it on to one of his own clients. Just such a thing seems to have occurred at 25 Fox Run Lane, which was purchased in 2010 for $4.5 million, by an Ogilvy client, just a few weeks after being listed by Mr.Ogilvy’s firm for $4.8. That same house is not enjoying the same easy path this time, however, and a year after starting off at $4.889 million, it has dropped today to $3.595. I suspect its trek has just begun.