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Northshore October 2025
  April and Bill Harb made history when they decided to allow “This Old House” to use their home to launch its 36th season. The PBS television show is watched by millions of viewers, who look to it for information about how to keep their old houses standing. But the Harbs’ house is not old at all—what the TV show chronicled in the spring of 2016 was the construction of a brand-new house in Essex. What’s more, the new house was built in a factory and assembled on site. Surely, historic preservationists are rolling in their graves.  Or maybe not. The Harbs’ new house was built by Connor Homes,
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