Baldwin Farms North contract

43 Baldwin Farms North, $2.065 million, 19 days.

The listing describes it as “a mid-century Colonial” which is as nice a way to describe a 1960 house as any I’ve come across, but it’s probably going as land.

Lovely obituary of the late owner here.

On June 11, 2021 Don Paul Gaston was called home to be with the Lord. He was met by his wife of 67 years, Paula, who had passed exactly two months prior. Born and raised in Nacogdoches, Texas, he fell in love with Paula at the tender age of fourteen. They were married in Nacogdoches on December 21, 1953, at the age of nineteen. Don and Paula began their family in Houston, and moved to Greenwich, CT in 1967. There, they resided in that very same house for 54 years, until both their deaths. Called simply "Don" by his eight grandchildren, he was the epitome of a Southern Gentleman. He is survived by his three children … eight grandchildren; as well as three great-grandchildren, …

He married his childhood sweetheart, stayed married for 68 years, set down roots in Greenwich and had children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren. Sounds like a life well lived.