After a 30-year search, Gissler found the perfect place in 2014: an 1840 Greek Revival farmhouse in Roxbury ... down a fantastical rabbit hole—one that could have easily been illustrated ...

It started out as a one-room farmhouse in the early 1700s ... He added the Italianate mansion, then, in 1858, a four-story tower that became the home’s namesake. A third floor was added in ...