Hepburn house in Old Saybrook fares better in Sandy than hurricane of 1938

Katharine Hepburn was so used to flooding at her seaside estate in Fenwick that the two refrigerators in her kitchen were on 16-inch tile platforms.

Katharine Hepburn’s former home in Fenwick wasn’t flooded during Sandy. Courant File Photo/Richard Messina

But the flooding that devastated much of Connecticut’s shoreline in the wake of Sandy didn’t touch Hepburn’s renovated mansion, on the market since last year, in the borough of Old Saybrook.
“It was on the yard, absolutely,” said Colette Harron, of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty in Essex, who has the listing. “But it didn’t come into the house.” Read More.