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Wyndclyffe, a House With a Literary Past, Is a Ruin in Trouble

By Rachel Emma Silverman, Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal Updated Sept. 29, 2003 12:17 a.m. ET

Over the past 50 years or so, a succession of owners let Wyndclyffe fall into disrepair and sold off most of the land. Today, the red brick mansion is a ruin on a wooded 2.5-acre lot surrounded by contemporary-style houses put up in the past couple of decades. The house's current owner, who inherited the house from his father, has it listed for sale at $275,000.

"My father looked at this place and saw the possibilities," says the owner, Teimoc Johnston-Ono, a 48-year-old judo instructor in New York who was on the U.S. judo team in the 1976 Olympics. "I see the problems."