SET BACK FROM THE SAND DUNES and flanked by magnolia trees, the farmhouse on eastern Long Island seems like it’s been there since the 1700s. The weathered gray clapboards and shingles adorning a modified saltbox, the converted barn near the street, the old agrarian acreage recast in rustic elegance—every element is a chapter in the property’s generations-old story.
But the story, as it turns out, is deeply researched historical fiction. When a previous client of Ferguson & Shamamian Architects approached the SoHo-headquartered firm about
