Maryland

Photo: Darren Higgins for The New York Times

NYTimes: Gale and T. J. Johnson live rent free in an 1815 farmhouse in Annapolis, Md., that they have spent 16 years restoring. The house, which was abandoned in the 1940s, had fallen into disrepair and was completely overgrown by the following decade.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/garden/30curators.html?8dpc