Levittown home comes with artist’s touch

Most Levitt houses on Long Island have been expanded and modified over the years. But Paula Clayton added her own artistic touches to her home in Levittown, now on the market for $339,000.

Clayton, a poet and artist who died in 2006, outfitted the main floor of the two-story house with Vermont slate and oak floors and added rustic paneling, cabinets, bookcases and beams made of pine and pecky cypress throughout. “She came from Maine, and it’s more like a Maine house,” says Clayton’s daughter, Jan Volz, explaining the New England feel of the four-bedroom, 2-1/2-bathroom home, which Clayton bought soon after it was built in about 1950.

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