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Northshore October 2025
When William Ruhl first set eyes on a ranch house on Gap Cove in Rockport, he couldn’t get the home—a lack-luster building on a floodplain, shoehorned between lichen-covered rocks in a classic coastal North Shore setting—out of his mind. “I’m obsessed with looking online for interesting houses in need of some TLC,” says Ruhl, a principal at Boston architecture and design firm Ruhl Walker Architects. He kept track of the home for years as it went on and off the market, eventually buying it in 2012. Six years later, the home has gone from ordinary to breathtaking, a simply styled, 1,600-square-foot modern home raised on 8-foot pier
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