Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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knows a treasure when she sees one. Arriving at the end of a secluded road on Peach's Point in Marblehead, the architectural designer and principal of MMO Designs in Swampscott recalls marveling at the statuesque three-story house. Built in the early 1900s as a summer getaway for city-dwellers, it was the charming embodiment of a previous era, one of the grand waterfront homes that unfurl on the North Shore like a string of pearls. But inside the house was a different story. Parts of the structure—including the internal systems —were showing the ravages that 100 years can wreak on a wood-framed oceanfront house. The new owners also needed updates to transition it from an old-style summerhouse to a year-round home. The only answer was a rebuild. But not just any rebuild. "We not only had to make it habitable all year long, but also had to replace and add new systems to update Architect Mary Michael O'Hare took a 1900s summer home and transformed it into a year-round home for her clients. 70