When a Big House Requires an Even Bigger Renovation

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One couple spent over two years and more than twice what they had paid for their Long Island home. ‘It was a full interior and exterior gut.’

By Fred A. BernsteinJan. 15, 2025 12:00 pm ET

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Robert (Bob) Beals and Elizabeth (Betsy) Barton may have the only house in Suffolk County with a “math nook.” Both former professors—he in math and computer science, she in astronomy and physics—they met while working for Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund on Long Island. After marrying in 2019 they bought a large house in Setauket overlooking the Long Island Sound. As they and their designers began reconfiguring the 12,000-square-foot manor, they found themselves with an extra upstairs sitting room. LEARN MORE…

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