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Northshore October 2025
  To see the “before” picture of the 100-year-old home in Manchester-by-the-Sea is to experience the true meaning of plain. Designed as a foursquare—popular in the early 1900s as a reaction to the ostentatious Victorian era—the house in the photo is dark, flat-fronted, and boxy, the exterior punctuated with small, uninspired windows. Further masking the home’s identity was an addition and mishmash of architectural details done in the 1970s and ’80s. But with a little imagination, it’s clear that even then, the house had a good dose of New England grandeur, especially in its grand old bones.&nb
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