Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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74 SPRING 2016 A 1700S NEW ENGLAND HOME HAS HAD MANY lives and many owners by the time it reaches our modern day, "transforming throughout the years to fit different purposes," says builder Mark Ratte of Ratte Construction. Built in the early 1700s, this An- dover home began as The Abbot Tavern, which "found its place in history and local legend when George Washington stopped there Nov. 5, 1789," according to records from Andover Historic Preservation. Later home to a druggist, a cabinetmaker, and a Salem mer- chant, the house was purchased in 2002 by its current owners, who lived abroad at the time. Their decision to move stateside in 2014 precipitated the large-scale renovation project headed by Ratte, architect Sally De- Gan of SpaceCraft Architecture, and interior designer vignettes nshoremag.com/nshorehome/ Among the additions architect Sally DeGan designed is a large mudroom. The old age of the home presented challenges like crooked floors, walls, and ceilings.