Sale price reported, Lake Avenue

742 Lake Avenue, listed at $2.4 million August 25, closed at $1.825. You can see that it was a charming house, but with two, flat acres in this neighborhood (corner of Hope Farm Road and Lake) and its 1967 build, including window a/cs, I’d bet on it being replaced.

It was an estate sale of the former Grace-Cole Jones, who passed away this past April at the early age of 104, and who, according to this article in Greenwich Time in 2010, at 94 was still volunteering at the eponymous Grace-Cole Jones Gift Shop at Norwalk Hospital, 40 years after starting there. “You go to church, that’s theory”, she told her interviewer. “When you go to the hospital, you practice it”.

There are amazing people everywhere, of course, but it’s always wonderful to discover one right in our midst.