At first the house was an ordinary split level with three bedrooms above the two-car garage and an unfinished top floor. Williams put a fourth bedroom and a full bath on the top floor. Then, the following year, he converted the garage into a huge family room, adding a bay window where the two garage doors used to be and an oversize wood burning fireplace with a second flue for a wood stove in the garage. He put a half bath in the corner of the family room and had his washer and dryer near the back door.
A year later, Williams added a huge 3-bay garage on the east side of the house. Each bay was two cars deep, making space to park six cars until he added a wide work table all along the back. You can park two cars in a single bay today only if one of them nestles its hood under the workbench.
By 1960, Williams also built a small, year-round kennel 100 yards behind the house where he raised beagles. He put in a well to water the dogs from an old-fashioned hand pump. His final addition to the property was a stone causeway out across the wetlands to a small island where he had a duck blind. The water level is a good two feet higher now than it was back then, so the causeway today is under water and all you can see of the island is the skeletons of the lofty white pines that grew there until the water rose.