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Northshore October 2025
  Beth Birke Calitri felt the weight of generations on her shoulders when she tackled the design of her Newburyport home. After all, the 1857 Victorian had housed city mayors and the founders of the Newburyport Horticultural Society in the past. “I didn’t want to abandon all this history,” Birke Calitri says. “I wanted to give it a nod, but I didn’t want to be beholden to the past.” Previous owners had kept the dark wood, and used a more traditional Victorian color scheme—pretty much the opposite of what Birke Calitri, her husband, Chris Calitri, and their two children, Zoey and Max,
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