Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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shop ren in the trade: "Driving around the North Shore, we all know where the 'bodies' are. We know there's a highboy there, a Fitz Henry Lane there, a John Sloan there, and we're all waiting for the phone call we hope will come." In the business's earlier years, phone calls to New England Gallery often came from Boston law firms settling estates. "We have enjoyed a good reputation," says Bob. "We have been discreet. We got the best of everything—furniture, silver, jewelry, paintings—that came up on the North Shore." Later on, competition with auction houses for the law firms' business grew. Still, there was enough to go around. "In the 1980s through the 1990s, you couldn't keep anything in stock. Price was no object," says Bob. Bob's nephew, Stuart Miller, joined the business near the beginning of its heyday. He had already been helping his uncle and aunt on a part-time basis since he was a student at North Andover High School. Shortly after college graduation in 1980, he went full-time. With Miller onboard, Bob and Burma could make a major personal transition: They moved to Sarasota, Florida, where today they live in a house on the water ("It's modern, but furnished in antiques," shares Bob) and run a second New England Gallery. "I didn't intend to have a FURNITURE • LIGHTING • RUGS • ACCESSORIES • RARE FINDS 18 RED SPRING RD., ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS 01810 978-475-5511 WWW.MAKANDCOANDOVER.COM Specializing in Renovations & New Construction of Fine Homes HEIRLOOM B U I LD E R S LLC www.HBGC.Biz • 978.290.3342 honesty • integrity • quality s e rV i n g the north shore