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Northshore October 2025
Renovating an old house to fit the needs of a modern family is a design challenge, usually because historic restrictions prevent any alteration or addition to the exterior. But in the case of a 1668 house in Ipswich, Anne Alberts, head of interior design at Carpenter & MacNeille Architects and Builders, also had to work around rules that protected the interior spaces. The simple clapboard house, which originally was in Salem, was moved to Ipswich in the 1920s to a large-acreage plot next to a working farm that’s within walking distance of the marshes. Today, it’s the primary home of a couple who have two teenage children and a small c
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