A surprise (to me) sale in Cos Cob

16 (left lot) and 21 Lia Fail

16 Lia Fail Road, the companion piece to No. 21, has sold for $675,000. It's 2.9 acres, and pretty, but I remember it as mostly wetlands, and never really believed anyone would choose to live on it. Shows what I know.

The sellers bought both parcels here in 2004 for $2.2 million, so with the $1.366 million they received for No. 21 this past August, they're getting out, after 12 years of trying, for pretty much what they put in.

I hear that the buyer of 21 is going to rip out the marble amphitheater on the property, and that's too bad but to be fair, what does one do with a 200-seat marble amphitheater in the woods? 

UPDATE: Reader Caelestis provides a link in the comment section to this Greenwich Sentinel column by Anne Semmes on the history of the amphitheater (which I now see seats at least 500).