Stamford, Conn. | $1.349 Million

A 1904 Arts and Crafts-style timber-and-stone bungalow with five bedrooms, five bathrooms and multiple outbuildings

This North Stamford house, four miles north of the Merritt Parkway and 35 minutes from Midtown Manhattan, was built as the summer home of Walter Phillips Terry, a journalist who died in 1917. All the chestnut logs used in its construction were cut at an 18th-century sawmill on the site, and the mill is believed to now be the property’s guest cottage. The house was eventually turned into a year-round residence, and in 2008 it was bought and revived by the current owner, William Bretschger, a construction manager specializing in historic restoration. It is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Size: 6,491 square feet

Price per square foot: $208

Indoors: Orient Lodge, as the three-story house is called, is a trove of period details, including etched-glass windows, chinoiserie wallpaper, vertically striped wainscoting, beamed and latticed ceilings, and monumental cobblestone fireplaces built with rocks from a stream on the property and ornamented with welcoming messages inscribed in gold leaf.

The four-foot-wide entry door with cherry-blossom etched-glass panels opens to a double-height vestibule. A window cut high in one wall, overlooking the adjacent great room, is filled with delicate fretwork, including a border made of fylfot, or ancient swastika, symbols. The great room has a 23-foot ceiling and timber walls. The legend in gold leaf on the fireplace mantel reads “Here ends the Road that leads to all Good Comfort.”

In the dining room, the ceiling is lower and the fireplace slogan shorter: “The Honor of the House is Hospitality.” Originally the leaded-glass window with fylfots overlooked a porch between the main house and the servants’ quarters and kitchen. That area has since been enclosed and is now taken up by a cabinet-lined butler’s pantry. The kitchen beyond it dates to the 1970s, with a 2008 refresh bringing in new appliances and repainted pine cabinets (the colors inspired by a Depression-era measuring scoop). The countertops remained Formica at the urging of Mr. Bretschger’s daughter.