Master bedroom.
for many great estates,
including
Morven,
a historic 7,379-acre
Charlottesville property
(Thomas
Jefferson
once owned the land
on which a fine Federalstyle residence was later
constructed). Morven
was given by its last
private owner, media
billionaire John Kluge, to
the University of Virginia
Foundation.
It is fitting, perhaps,
that Fairfax and Sammons are the present owners of the
two entrancing Greenwich Village houses. As professional
architects, they seek to uphold classical tradition, designing
and remodeling Renaissance Revival villas in Florida, Georgian
houses in Connecticut and 19th-Century Italianate brownstones
in New York for a slew of prominent clients, such as William
H. Donaldson, erstwhile chairman of the New York Stock
Exchange and actors Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew
Broderick.
Historic plaques adorn a number of buildings in Greenwich
Village, among them the former residences of poet Emma
Lazarus, author Mark Twain, General Winfield Scott,
artist Stuart Davis and Eleanor Roosevelt. Some day, there
should be a marker on the attractive duo of little houses on West
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