Dutch barn

As the sun descended over Inness that Saturday, Mr. Somer was taking in the golden-hour view of the grounds from a flax-colored armchair in the Inness lounge, discussing the Danish sensibility of its lime-wash walls and the utilitarian design of the building itself, which he described as a “a wormhole between an old 17th-century Dutch barn and a brand-new Swiss minimalist museum.”

Great room, dining room, screened porches, Dutch barn gambrel roof, detached garage with guest apartment.

It might be anything from lace to a Dutch barn; the fascination is with the act of making, which parallels the poet's own craft.

They bought it for a few hundred dollars, took it apart and laid it out in a field, where it remained for a few years while Mr. Handelsman, who became something of a Dutch barn scholar, learned how to put it back together.

Rather, the idea is to keep the many layers and enhance them and their structures; a rustic Dutch barn imported to the site by Horniman and a Townsend-designed bandstand have been restored.