On the Market / A super-sized Cape Cod in Darien
(World News USA)

DARIEN - The Cape Cod house is one of New England´s most significant contributions to American culture, according to the website www.pilgrimhallmuseum.org. `This traditional, vernacular house style was built all over New England for more than 250 years, and spread across the country in the 1940s and 1950s to become one of America´s favorite house styles, the website said. It goes on to say that the house style got its name in 1800 from the Reverend Timothy Dwight, president of Yale University and minister of Greenfield Hill Congregational Church in Fairfield, in his book, Travels in New England and New York. Another website mentions the diminutive size of the Cape Cod, usually about 1,000 to...