Airport express with phone line instead of ethernet?

Hi there:
I manage a HUGE plantation estate in rural Virginia that has many outbuildings, cottages, offices and a main house.  We have barely 3MB of speed from the phone company to the office and the house only gets 1.5 MB.  The office has an ethernet DSL modem, but the house has a separate line with only a phone line that the 1.5 is currently coming thru.  Many of the walls are stone and extremely thick (think Colonial times) and signal is very hard to permeate these.
I bought an Express and an Extreme in hopes of boosting the signal throughout the office and house.  Currently they have a NetGear Wifi router trying to do this.
Can I connect the Express in the room with only the phone line or do I have to have ethernet?
Will this equipment boost better than the Netgear?  or am I wasting my time?  I have a Time Capsule at home and I get signal across my whole property all the way into my garage studio (across acres), so I am hoping this may be the case at the Estate.  (Although at my house we have 10MB of speed not only 3 or less).
Any suggestions?  Thanks!

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