A New Kitchen with a Preservation Ethic

Before 1994, when she fell in love with and bought this house, Sarah Blank hadn’t heard of Royal Barry Wills. Then she learned that the Cape, built in 1957, in New Canaan, Connecticut, was typical of the work of the famous Colonial Revival architect who was a prolific designer as well as America’s best-selling architectural writer.

Regina Cole | photographs by Curtis Lew