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New Canaan Now & Then: Beechway [CLARIFICATION]
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‘Now & Then’ is sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens Realtors Joanne Santulli, Karen Ceraso, Bettina Hegel and Schuyler Morris. The property located on Greenley Road was purchased on May 13,1929 by W. Rutger J. Planten. Mr. Planten hired New York City architect F. H. Hutton of 101 Park Avenue to design his home, which he called “Beechway.”
Mr. Planten was born in Brooklyn in 1877. He was the son of John R. Planten, the Consul General for the Netherlands in New York City, a position he held for 25 years. Both Mr. John R. Planten and his wife were born in Holland.