Can't Get E4200 Set Up to Extend Time Capsule Network

I have a location with two buildings on it. I had an E4200 working fine in the main building and now I'm replacing it with a Time Capsule and would like to use the E4200 in the other building to extend the network to encompass both buildings.
The first buildling with the main connection and the Time Capsule has a default IP of 10.0.1.1 The two buildings are too far away from each for effective wireless bridging, but they do have an ethernet cable running from one to another.
I tested the cable between the buildings and it's working properly picking up a DHCP address from the Time Capsule.
I'm trying to set up the E4200 to simply extend the network by plugging in the ethernet cable from the Time Capsule LAN port to the E4200 WAN port in the other building. I'd like to use the same network name and everything so the E4200 simply picks up the clients in the second building and sends them back to the Time Capsule. I'm hoping this will allow Time Machine back ups when using the E4200 signal.
For the life of me, I can't figure out what these settings should be and what I have below certainly doesn't work. Here is a picture of the E4200 Router Options. Can someone please tell me what these should be to accomplish this task? The Time Capsule has a DHCP range of 10.0.1.2 - 10.0.1.200. NAT Translation is on in the E4200 options in another section as well if that matters. I also tried setting the Static IP address from the Internet Connection type and the Router Address to the same 10.0.1.250, but the E4200 router won't allow me to do that.
I appreciate any help out there as I'm going a little crazy having worked on this for a few weeks now with so many different settings and pieces of hardware. Thanks!

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