Saving Plum Island's Pink House

The solitary house rises rosy-hued and defiant in the midst of a salt marsh, like a grand dame keeping up appearances. A closer look reveals a sadnes...

Windover Recognized with Seven Project Awards

Windover Construction of Beverly, Massachusetts has received six PRISM awards recognizing their outstanding work in building and design from the...

Historic Andover Home Restored

When it came time to replace the contemporary “Colonial-style” front door of their handsome 1860s Victorian-era house, the owners did a c...

Sight Unseen

Oftentimes, when it comes to screening in the landscape, people opt for a fortress-like barrier—one species planted around the perimeter, six t...

Manchester Marvel

What they bought was a historic cottage-turned-farmhouse, which had been added onto over time. What they envisioned was a home whose design fulfilled...

Carpenter & MacNeille Designed The Ultimate Summer Home

Located on a wooded point surrounded by the ocean in Manchester-by-the-Sea, this two-story frame house makes space for all the tangible and intangibl...

Topsfield Barn Revived For Modern Use

After restoring a First Period house in Ipswich that was on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Most Endangered Places list, archite...

A Crafty Renovation in Marblehead

The setting is, in a word, spectacular. Situated on the Neck, an island-like spot of land connected to Marblehead proper by a causeway, the home f...

Lofty Dreams in Lawrence

A couple turns a beautiful sprawling space in Lawrence’s historic Wood Worsted Mill into a dream contemporary dwelling.  When Chris...

The History of History

Historic New England, which maintains 36 properties in the region (including nine on the North Shore), was founded by the country's first full-tim...