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Northshore October 2025
As he read the original blueprints of the 1899 Georgian-style home, architect Robert S. MacNeille pieced together the magnificent tale of a grand—but worn—house in Manchester-by-the-Sea. MacNeille, the principal of Carpenter & MacNeille Architects and Builders in Essex and Wellesley, recognized the features that befit an elegant 1900s era home: the classic pediments on the front exterior, a beautiful staircase connecting the first and second floors, exquisite mantelpieces, elaborate detailing. He also saw a not-so-pleasing side story, a 1990s renovation that, as MacNeille says, “wasn’t up to the level of the original.” For th
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