Article: Picture this: Ex-Polaroid exec's Connecticut estate on market for $15 mil.

A Greenwich, Conn., estate--built by one of the founders of Polaroid--is on the market $15 million. Julius Silver, who served as the photography company's patent lawyer for 40 years, died in January at the age of 101.

As a youth, Silver met the company's founder, Edwin Land, at a summer camp, not long before Land's innovations for refracting light revolutionized photography. In 1960, Silver purchased four empty acres in Greenwich from a larger Victorian estate with plans to build. Records don't show the sale price of the land at the time.

Two years later, his contemporary 5-bedroom, 7-bath house was completed. The 6,200-square-foot residence has views of Long Island Sound from every room ...

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