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Northshore October 2025
Susan Howell was working a corporate marketing job when she and her husband, Steve, decided in 1992 to build their own timber-framed house on a two-acre plot in Boxford. As the home progressed, Howell says, neighbors were taken with the workmanship and starting asking Steve if he could do similar projects for them. He began to consider leaving his own office job to start a construction company.  “That’s when he decided to make the leap and convinced me I should join him,” Howell says.  So, in 1997, Howell left the corporate world behind and threw herself into launching Howell Custom Building Group with her husband. The r
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