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Northshore October 2025
They must have looked at 40 houses before they saw this one," says Rob MacNeille, principal architect of the Essex design-build firm Carpenter & MacNeille. He recalls how Nicolay and Natalia Bogachev, originally from Moscow but now at home in Luxembourg, hunted for a pied-à-terre when their children began attending boarding school in Massachusetts. "They looked all along the coast, north and south of Boston," MacNeille says. "They knew they wanted to be on the water, but beyond that, had no preconceptions. When they saw Selkirk, they fell in love. He adds in a wry tone, "Of all the houses they toured, they fell in love with the
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