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October 2014

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100 nshoremag.com October 2014 Interiors ne house to its 1890s appearance and turn it into a bed and breakfast. Carpenter & Mac- Neille were awarded the restoration project and soon began designing and re-creating architectural elements that were lost due to years of neglect. Rob MacNeille, principal of the firm, had been doing small jobs for The Trustees since 1991. "The old portion of the house had to be taken down to the studs, but the 1890s structure was in fairly good shape," he says. "The original porch had been taken off at some point." The Trustees found an archival photograph of the structure showing its porch, and the architects were able to design a replica. "Because the porch was missing, there Country House Above, the entryway is an inviting Colonial Revival design. Carpenter & MacNeille added a wraparound porch in 2000.

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