Way back in 2009, we got the chance to step inside Joe and Jonathan’s home on Long Island, which they renovated with the same architect who designed it 40 years prior. In celebration of our 25th anniversary this year—and National Preservation Month—we’re resurfacing the story from our archive. – “I can show you what it was…and what it is,” Joe said, delineating the slight, 250-square-foot addition to his Long Island summer home as we stepped inside. In effect, the 1,400-square-foot house—a simple cypress box elegantly sited on one of the area’s anomalous slopes—had been largely unchanged. “We decided to expand it a bit but not to alter the footprint,” he continued. “The idea was to keep it small and, really, we bought the house because we liked it—we didn’t want to change it.” But even the most well-executed design has trouble withstanding the wear and tear of 40 years; if it didn’t need a change, it certainly needed an update. So Joe and his partner, Jonathan, made the most logical de...