One Of Greenwich's Oldest And Most Historic Homes Listed For Sale

GREENWICH, CT — The Samuel Ferris House, the oldest home in Riverside and one of the oldest structures in Greenwich, has been listed for sale at $895,000.

Located at 1 Cary Road and built in 1760, the home was granted local historic property status by the Greenwich Representative Town Meeting in September.

Greenwich's Historic District Commission sought the designation to protect the house from demolition in perpetuity. Any proposed additions or changes to the exterior of the house must receive a certificate of appropriateness from the commission.

The house is being co-listed by Martha Z. Jeffrey and Anne Ogilvy of Sotheby's International Realty Greenwich Brokerage.

The listing description notes the interior is 1,284 square feet with three bedrooms, three bathrooms and two fireplaces.

The house is the only 18th-century building remaining on the east side of the Mianus River on the Post Road in Greenwich, according to documents submitted to the town as part of the local historic property designation process.

The house was built by Samuel Ferris soon after his marriage to Susannah Peck around 1760. Ferris was the grandson of one of the original patentees of the town.

At the turn of the 20th century, a local newspaper, The Greenwich Graphic, ran a series of articles profiling the town's historic homes.

One of the articles mentioned that in the Revolutionary War during the British raid on Greenwich, several of General Israel Putnam's found refuge in the Ferris House, although the historical accuracy is unconfirmed, documents submitted to the town said. The house also served as a restaurant for several years until the mid-1940s.

In 1947, the property was sold to the town by Mabel Louise Olmstead. During this time, veteran housing for those returning from World War II was built on roughly 30 acres of the site's contiguous farmland.

In 1957, the town sold the home to private owners. The house was listed for sale in early 2022 and purchased by Historic Properties of Greenwich, who helped initiate the preservation process.

Check out the full listing from Sotheby's here.