How Beechwood went from full of life to foreclosure. We go inside a fabled Cheshire mansion’s long reign and abrupt fall.
CHESHIRE — The dense, green veil of growth that wraps the former Beechwood House on Route 8 was just hacked away. Why? After years of neglect, visitors are coming Friday.
The haircut isn’t doing this grand old lady any favors.
The mansion, an early American tavern and, later, a summer refuge for New York’s elite, sits open in places to the weather, its clapboards loose, roofline heaving, hinges sagging, doors mismatched. In the past decade, it drew squatters, not socialites.
Out back, missing boards above two windows suggest a scowl.
That’s what strangers will find at noon Friday, when the fabled building at 12 South St., built not long after the Revolutionary War and dramatically remodeled a century later, faces a foreclosure auction.
Once again, one of Cheshire’s most historic buildings, and perhaps its most distressed, stands at a crossroads.
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