“Mr. Washington is here” is carved on one of the hand-hewn rafters. “As the story goes, the house was being framed when George Washington was on an i...
It might sound crazy, but several years ago Beth Smithson and her husband moved their family a mere two streets over from their home in Andover to a ...
Nicknamed the Green Mountain State for obvious reasons, Vermont is also a state of mind. Dotted with fields, woods, trails, and ponds, much of Vermon...
Mary Michael O'Hare knows a treasure when she sees one. Arriving at the end of a secluded road on Peach’s Point in Marblehead, the architectural desi...
“It’s this crazy puzzle,” says designer Holly Gagne as she remembers the project of transforming the first floor of a 1986 Colonial-style home in New...
Longtime Wenham residents and empty nesters Tom and Huntley Skinner knew their 1949 ranch house was in need of an update with a more cohesive open la...
Earlier this year, many people found themselves at home, baking bread, baking cookies (let’s be honest, baking all the things) to help keep themselve...
At the tail end of the 19th century, architect F. Patterson Smith (1870-1932) decided to build his own residence on the banks of Upper Mystic Lake in...
Nineteenth-century American painter Fitz Hugh Lane, a native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, often depicted maritime landscapes near his North Shore ho...
