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Northshore October 2025
  There are fixer-uppers, and then there are lost causes. When Nora and Alexander Falk purchased—or more aptly, rescued—their Marblehead home in 2007, it fell somewhere in the gray area between these two categories. But the new owners saw only the property’s unmatched beauty and future potential. Situated prominently on the rocky shoreline where Swampscott meets Marblehead, the historic home—built in 1899 as the summer residence for a wealthy industrialist—was once proud and gracious, a Shingle-style beauty. However, in the latter half of the 20th century, the property fell into disrepair, advance
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