Cracked plaster, peeling paint, and leaking pipes galore couldn't stop one family from swapping their convenience-filled suburban home for a colonial-era farmstead with room to roam
The 4,100-square-foot fieldswtone farmhouse that the Tony Sciscione (shown with goose) and his wife Cheri has fallen for was not everybody's idea of idyllic—or inhabitable. Granted, the place had a venerable history: Ravenroyd, as it is known, was once the house of John Parker, the Quaker who cofounded the nearby town of Chadds Ford, where Washington and his troops fought the ill-fated Battle of Brandywine in 1777.
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