Riverside pending sale

155 Riverside Avenue, a 1965 Murphy house* built on a slab in a swamp, was priced at $1.689 million and is probably going for more, considering it went pending in just 10 days. It looks as though the kitchen and baths have been updated but it looks essentially the same as it did when my friend David Carlisle lived there in 1970; I don’t know who aged better, David or the house (I haven’t seen David since high school, but the house, at least, is still with us.

*So named by us locals in honor of a local builder, Murphy, who specialized in building marginal house on marginal land and selling them at marginal prices: I believe this one sold for $27,000 back then, which even in 1965 was pretty cheap.