What the Architect of Grey Gardens Built for Himself

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The six-bedroom East Hampton home is for sale.

selling to Louis and Maude Bock, who kept the home in pristine condition with one major improvement: Maude was an obsessive gardener and turned the yard into a traditional English garden. Annuals still pop up every now and then, though the rest is lost to time. “We didn’t know how to keep it up,” Moriarty says. “The deer were eating everything.

The listing suggests a future owner could add a pool and a guesthouse, but the Moriartys never saw the point; the home is a short walk from East Hampton’s Main Beach. Which is how they found it: James was a sailor who first got to East Hampton via the marina. “He loved the house,” Moriarty says. “If he were here, we never would have sold.”

The home was built in the neo-Elizabethan or Tudor-revival style by Joseph Greenleaf Thorp, an architect who made his name building the summer palaces of the Gilded Age.Coffered ceilings in the living room extend into this dining room, where one of four fireplaces in the home is painted in a

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