The Sanborn Carriage House has been in the news lately, with the recent Town Meeting voting in favor of its preservation following decades of disuse and neglect. An important piece of Winchester’s architectural history, the building completes the story of one of the town’s most ambitious families. Winchester socialites Oren Cheney Sanborn and his wife Lorena Armstrong Sanborn built their grand hilltop estate (they called it “Aigremont,”) in 1906-8, to the designs of architects Hill & James.