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Northshore October 2025
A stone’s throw from a main commercial street northwest of Boston, in an 1850s Italianate farmhouse basks in the serenity of an intimate lot separated from its neighbors by mature trees and hedges. Restrained yet resplendent, the green-shuttered white house with a deep front porch and storybook porte-cochère is endowed both with the reverence of American colonial history and an element of je ne sais quoi that some say only the French are able to conjure. But it wasn’t always this alluring. “Our client wanted to redo a number of things that previous builders had done to the house and try to get it back to the original,” says archit
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