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Northshore October 2025
In the center of Lynnfield, Massachusetts, there’s an old house well known by most of the townspeople. It’s the Reverend John Mottey House, which has an original section that dates back to 1785. Located on 7 acres, the house, also called Centre Farm, is typical of a New England connected farm—there’s a “big house” (original main living quarters), a “little house” (kitchen area added onto the big house), a “backhouse” (less important rooms like storage or an outhouse), and an animal barn, which was usually the first structure built out of them all. Though the house was lived in and loved by mostly one family in its recen
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