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Northshore October 2025
Architect and designer Sebastian Carpenter turned a once-forgotten Wenham house into the daring and contemporary home of his dreams. By Regina Cole, Photographed by Eric RothIt could be said that the lot on which designer Sebastian Carpenter's home sits was cursed. Its first occupant, a grand Georgian Revival built in 1916, burned down 34 years later. The house erected in its place-a comparatively lackluster 1950s structure with brick and cedar siding and a flat roof-eventually fell into disrepair after years of neglect,  with prospective buyers turned off by its awkward, boxlike proportions. But the lot overlooking Wenham Lake wa
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