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Northshore October 2025
Considering the long arc of an old house, the task of bringing it back to its original architectural lines can be a long and winding road. Just ask Robert S. MacNeille, principal of Carpenter & MacNeille Architects and Builders in Essex and Wellesley. MacNeille was asked to renovate a late 1880s Shingle-style home on the North Shore, about a hundred yards from the ocean, after the structure had undergone decades of quirky additions and alterations which had nearly doubled its original size. “The first addition to the house was only 10 years after its original construction,” MacNeille says. “We saw the dates, written in chalk on
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