MIDDLEFIELD — A once-famous lodging and dining place, which has been standing idle for the past seven years, has come to life under the skillful hands of Jack Donald Cobb of New York City and Middlefield. The building is the site of a story-and-a-half red house built in 1781 by John Ford, and later occupied by Lewis Taylor at the end of the Revolutionary War, when he married the Widow Ford. It stood until 1848, when it was demolished by Taylor's grandson, Hiram Taylor.