Riffles and Runs was built in 1870...

and is a lovely example of the Italianate style with an inviting front porch.

In the early 1900s publisher Sylvia Beach spent much time visiting her grandparents in this house. Sylvia went on to Paris and opened "Shakespeare and Company," the most famous bookshop lending library in the world, where James Joyce's Ulysses was first published and books like Lady Chatterly's Lover, banned in England and the United States, were available. Until the Nazis forced Beach to close her shop in 1941, it was ground zero for members of the Lost Generation -- Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Thorton Wilder, Samuel Beckett, Katherine Ann Porter and others.