Lisa sent me the site where she found the story and it is an interview with Daryl Hall - an interesting read
“ There will be no gold records on the wall.”
Restoration buffs are buzzing about singer/songwriter Daryl Hall’s recent purchase of the oldest house in Maine. The hammer price at auction for the John Bray House at Kittery’s Pepperrell Point was just under $2 million.
here's the link to the full interview
http://www.aroundmaine.com/07/portmag/hall/default.asp
here are some teasers
How did you feel when you first personally toured this house?
My first impression was, ‘how English,’ as opposed to Colonial American. I know this because I’ve just finished renovating a 1740 house in London, in Hammersmith. For example, I was surprised to find high plaster ceilings in this 345-year-old structure in Kittery, which make it more akin to an English house than an American Colonial house. The house is oak beamed. There are no chamfered beams and things indicative of a 17th-century house in most places in America. It was built ahead of its time.
I found his take on the style of the house really interesting because of something else I read when on the first hunt - - this link was a pain to open so be patient if you do it http://www.wirenh.com/News/In_Brief/Roch...32110.html
"Built about 345 years ago, the Bray House is frequently touted as Maine’s oldest house. Richard Candee, a retired professor of American and New England Studies from Boston University, disputes this claim. During research for his doctoral dissertation on historic Maine houses, he found nothing to support claims of the building’s old age.
“I couldn’t find a stick of 17th century material,” said Candee. “The exact date is impossible to tell.” "
How much time will you spend up here?
Somewhere between living and visiting—that’s my life! I’ve always been a road person. My career takes me all over the world, but at the same time I like to have my feet on the ground. So all sorts of times in the summer, fall, and spring, I’ll be up in Kittery, living there. It’s only a three-hour drive from two other homes I’m restoring near Millbrook, New York. They were built in 1771 and 1780.
Have any high-profile buddies of yours ever joked with you about this musty passion of yours?
I don’t really talk to my contemporaries that much. Musicians seem to stay in their own solar systems. The guys in my band have known about it all along and don’t find it unusual at all. It’s funny. I look at Architectural Digest and see various musicians pictured with their houses and they always look like they’re in hotel rooms—mansions and hotel rooms—and that’s not me. [Laughs] There won’t be any gold records on the walls in the Bray House.
if you came to the Portland concert and wandered around the Old Port you may agree with him on this
When was your first-ever visit to Maine?
In the 1970s I guess. We did a rehearsal above Portland somewhere. I’ve played Portland a few times; it’s a very distinct place, not like anywhere else in New England. I really like it a lot, but for one reason or another it hasn’t often turned up for me on tour.
and for the people over in the cat thread - don't miss this story 
. . . . . . .. A few weeks later, out of the woods, came a gray kitten. I call her Miss Gray. She hasn’t left since.
After I read it I thought of Taylor of course he gave some
one has to laugh at that!