WestportNow Teardown (Sort of) of the Day: 156 Easton Road

A demolition permit was required for today’s WestportNow Teardown of the Day at 156 Easton Road and that technically makes it the shortest life from construction to demolition of any teardown featured on WestportNow. But there are unusual circumstances. The previous house on the property was the WestportNow Teardown of the Day on Nov. 2, 2005. A developer purchased the .75-acre property for $680,000 in September 2005 and built a modular home there. In May 2006, the owners of an adacent (smaller) property on Catamount Road (where their house was built in 1924) purchased 156 Easton Road for $1.3 million and asked the developer to remove the new home. The builder began taking down the house Tuesday and moving it to an empty one-acre site at 6 Barry Lane, which was featured as the WestportNow Teardown of the Day on Dec. 26, 2006. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com