![]() ![]() Buddha statuary is a recurring theme in the garden. ![]() In the basement, a terra-cotta honeycomb from Brazil holds 500 bottles of wine. Gilbert by an imaginative carpenter, Michael Flood. In place of the attic, there is the 1,400-square-foot “Skybrary” (translation: library in the sky), a mystical aerie carved and customized for Ms. The formal circular driveway that once dominated the front lawn has been replaced by a colorful meadow of wildflowers and berry bushes. It is definitely the most eclectically renovated house in Frenchtown, right up to the peak of its cupola, now crowned by a copper roof. “It and its twin next door were built to be the grandest homes in town.” Gilbert of her quaint yellow clapboard at 3 Reading Avenue (the gray gravel lane serves just two houses). “It was the most expensive place in town back when I bought it, but it always has been,” said Ms. It is probably the most expensive four-bedroom two-and-a-half-bath house in Frenchtown, N.J., an artsy but rural village that is a stone’s throw from Bucks County, Pa., and just over an hour from New York City. The house has been owned for the last six years by the author Elizabeth Gilbert, whose best-selling memoir, “Eat, Pray, Love,” revolutionized the concept of self-actualization for its fans. An Italianate Victorian mini-estate built in 1869 on a hilltop above the Delaware River by a descendant of John Reading - Colonial New Jersey’s first native-born governor - is about to enter the market at $999,000. ![]()
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