Betts Farm, located at 249 Nod Road in Ridgefield, is an estate consisting of several historic structures, including the main house, an ice house and wood shed, a barn, and an adjacent cottage. The original section of the main house dates to circa 1790. It features an Early Classical Revival-style gable-fronted facade with four Ionic columns and a circular window in the gable. In about 1925 the house was acquired by Henry King McHarg (1851-1942), a railroad tycoon from Albany, New York whose family had roots in Ridgefield. Two years later he married his second wife, Elizabeth Clark Pierce (she was 36 and he was 76) and it is possibly around that time that he joined another, originally separate, house to the rear of the 1790 structure.
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