"Ten years ago, the property that's adjacent to my parents' house became available for the first time in nearly a century," says real estate developer Paul Arnhold, who grew up in New York City and spent weekends in bucolic Roxbury, Connecticut, two hours away. Arnhold introduced his husband, Carolina Herrera creative director Wes Gordon, to the area, and he, too, fell in love with the beautiful countryside. Fortunately for the design-oriented couple (Arnhold is also a talented glassblower), the property, known as Thistledown Farm, was an iconic Connecticut farmhouse, built in 1790. They had to have it.
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