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Northshore October 2025
  Architect Dan Hisel has a clear strategy when it comes to working on historic homes: “Find ways of letting the historic elements of the house remain historic and then make specific interventions where the contemporary language is allowed to provide a contrast.” For a family of four’s 1800s house in historic Newburyport, Massachusetts, the original staircase, the newel post and some of the first- and second-floor walls were the only interior elements he preserved during its renovation. “It was not a livable house when they moved in,” Hisel says. “We also kept the historic feel of the main exteri
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