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according to a relative who is an amateur genealogist. "That was a delightful sur- prise," Sue says. While the couple didn't know the connection when they made the off r, Jeff admits with a laugh that part of his attraction to the house might have been this lurking family tie. The couple brought in the interior de- sign firm Wilson Kelsey Design to oversee the project, starting with an extensive series of meetings in February and March in the unheated house. "This was the most disarray we've ever encountered," says John Kelsey, principal at Salem-based Wilson Kelsey. "Things were taken down and there was no docu- mentation as to what had been there. No photography, no drawings, nothing that said, 'When we take this down, here's where it belongs and here's how it should go back.' This project took us to places we'd never been before." 184 But Kelsey and his wife and business partner Sally Wilson were unfazed by the challenges that came their way, says Sue—from figuring out which pieces of woodwork from the hundreds stacked in the garage went in which rooms to Order Restored The Wilson Kelsey duo reconstituted what had been left in disarray.