Historic Andover Home Restored

When it came time to replace the contemporary “Colonial-style” front door of their handsome 1860s Victorian-era house, the owners did a c...

Sight Unseen

Oftentimes, when it comes to screening in the landscape, people opt for a fortress-like barrier—one species planted around the perimeter, six t...

Manchester Marvel

What they bought was a historic cottage-turned-farmhouse, which had been added onto over time. What they envisioned was a home whose design fulfilled...

Carpenter & MacNeille Designed The Ultimate Summer Home

Located on a wooded point surrounded by the ocean in Manchester-by-the-Sea, this two-story frame house makes space for all the tangible and intangibl...

Topsfield Barn Revived For Modern Use

After restoring a First Period house in Ipswich that was on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Most Endangered Places list, archite...

A Crafty Renovation in Marblehead

The setting is, in a word, spectacular. Situated on the Neck, an island-like spot of land connected to Marblehead proper by a causeway, the home f...

Lofty Dreams in Lawrence

A couple turns a beautiful sprawling space in Lawrence’s historic Wood Worsted Mill into a dream contemporary dwelling.  When Chris...

The History of History

Historic New England, which maintains 36 properties in the region (including nine on the North Shore), was founded by the country's first full-tim...

One Couple Finds Their Dream Home in Annisquam

They must have looked at 40 houses before they saw this one," says Rob MacNeille, principal architect of the Essex design-build firm Carpenter &am...