ith just two restaurants and fewer than 200 people, Lumberville, Pennsylvania, is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it burg hugging the Delaware River in Bucks County, an hour north of Philadelphia. There’s no nightclub, the general store doesn’t sell any designer labels, and residents ring in the New Year by lowering a ball wrapped in Christmas lights from the village footbridge.

The Hamptons this is not. And Greg Tankersley and Mary Robin Jurkiewicz wouldn’t have it any other way.

A few years after moving to Manhattan, the Alabama natives decided they were ready to join the hordes of jaded New Yorkers seeking a weekend refuge from the city. But excursions to Connecticut, the Hudson Valley, and the east end of Long Island left little impression on them. Then a friend invited the pair to visit her in Bucks County. “I didn’t even know where that was,” Tankersley confesses. They arrived on a Friday, and by Sunday they’d made an offer on a house.

“We’re both from small towns, so we got the whole small-town aspect of it,” says Tankersley, an architect who is a partner at the venerable design firm McAlpine. “There’s always been a slight Bohemian edge to this area. That was one of the things we appreciated.”

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INTERIOR DESIGN BY GREG TANKERSLEY AND MARY ROBIN JURKIEWICZ

PHOTOGRAPHY BY LISA ROMEREIN

WRITTEN BY FRED ALBERT

This story appeared in the Winter 2026 issue of MILIEU.