Byram Shore Road

75 Byram Shore Road, asking $14.295 million is pending. An 1892 Victorian, it asked $18.8 million in 2017, but in this price range, the discount is almost negligible.

The house is owned by the widow of Robert Zimmer, founder of Men’s Warehouse who died at age 93. Fascinating obituary here. He was a navigator in a B-24 as a very young man, was shot down over Vienna and spent nine months as a POW until freed by the ending of the war. Then he went on to college and made a huge success of his life, including raising a large family and living in a beautiful home. I love stories like these, in part because they deliniate the narrow line between an early, tragic death and a life well-lived.