The Stove: Owner Patrick Clark restored this cottage, once owned by the artist Richard Mott, in part by using pieces from Mott’s other house, circa 1860, also in the Rockaways, which was demolished.

A. Clarke Bedford, who once preserved masterpieces for the Hirshhorn Museum, has transformed his Maryland home into a bizarre and totally delightful spectacle.

Further fundraising efforts will seek to convert the newly restored cottage into a museum by 2027, commemorating 200 years since Blake’s death in 1827. This will involve recreating the house as ...