While resurrecting a falling-down circa 1850 home, the owner found poetry in salvaged sinks, antique tile, and a couple of pros who could bring her design ideas to life
When Jane Benson Ackerman finally got around to dealing with the sagging half of her mid-19th-century house, she had no idea what she would find. But the biggest surprise wasn't the covered-up evidence of fires and former windows or the absence of a firm foundation, which her general contractor was alarmed to discover while attempting to shore up a supporting wall in pouring rain. What she uncovered was something less tangible, though no less dramatic.
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