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Northshore October 2025
Ben Nutter considered staying out West after graduating from the University of Oregon in the late 1970s. He liked it out there and connected with the region’s ahead-of-the-curve views on environmental design and sustainability. He could have had a great architectural career there, too. But Oregon was missing something that he couldn’t find anywhere but where he grew up in Topsfield. “The family roots here are so strong, and the community roots here are so strong,” Nutter says. “It’s the power of people, the power of place, and the power of preservation. . . . That’s what I love, and that was here. And I didn’t see that ther
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