Built in 1918, this 4,350-square-foot row house is situated along Rainbow Row in downtown Charleston.
WHEN the actors Alysia Reiner and David Alan Basche embarked on a renovation of their four-story, 5,000-square-foot row house in Harlem two years ago, they did not intend for it to become a show house.
Father Wells agreed to lease the vacant mission house, a five-story, 8,756-square-foot row house, for essentially the costs of annual utilities and insurance, which amounts to $3.68 per square foot of space, or about $32,000 a year.
Its 85 acre estate in the Illinois Valley is planted in the European style of dense 6 feet row and 4 feet vine spacing.
Behind the house, six 32-foot rows of roses are boxed over for the winter.
At my feet rows of tiny shoes were lined up, each with its own wooden shoetree — there seemed to be hundreds of pairs, for every possible social and sporting occasion.
Ripening on bushes in 100-foot rows on an acre of gently sloping hillside are the farm's organic raspberries, available for the public to pick for $6 a pint.
They returned about a half-hour later to greet Geoffrey Conklin of Old Lyme, who had arrived with a 17-foot rowing boat atop his car and two larger ones on a trailer.
Mrs. Reppert's husband, Edmund, a cardiologist, said he planted more than six varieties of garlic in eight 30-foot rows to flavor the garlic ice cream and garlic fudge the family craves.
The raiding party, which consisted of four members of the Connecticut River Oar and Paddle Club, slipped two sturdy 21-foot rowing boats into the river and headed for Essex, about three miles upstream.
At my feet rows of tiny shoes were lined up, each with its own wooden shoetree there seemed to be hundreds of pairs, for every possible social and sporting occasion.
