Even in the summer heat, 99-year-old S. Prestley Blake drives his green off-road cart to check on his construction project several times a day.
Blake, co-founder of the Friendly's Ice Cream empire, is spending an estimated $6 million to build a copy of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello just down the street from his home in Somers.
Patterned after the U.S. president's mansion, the 10,000-square-foot house is slightly smaller than the 11,000-square-foot original, but the front of the building looks remarkably similar in just about every other respect. Read More.
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