Sarah Paynter

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The Shingle-Style Home Gets Reinvented for the 21st Century

By: Sarah Paynter

Homeowners are modernizing these historic exteriors by paring back moldings and columns and opting instead for bolder, more colorful facades.

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The shingle-style home gets reinvented for the 21st century

By: Sarah Paynter

When you think of Shingle-style houses, you might imagine century-old vacation retreats in Nantucket, Mass., or the Hamptons.

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Healthcare exec lists $18.25 million French chateau-style home outside Atlanta

By: Sarah Paynter

For her 6th birthday party, Anna Windley had pony rides and a petting zoo at her parents' French chateau-style house outside Atlanta.

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Historic Homes: A Maryland Farm that Became a War of 1812 Battlefield

By: Sarah Paynter

The 1,050-acre property helped reverse U.S. fortunes after the British burned Washington, D.C.

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Historic homes: A Maryland farm that became a War of 1812 battlefield

By: Sarah Paynter

In August 2014, cannon fire rang out across Richard van Stolk's family farm in Chestertown, Md., setting off car alarms and startling the neighbors.

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Historic Homes: A Berkshires Retreat Built by an American Poet

By: Sarah Paynter

Oliver Wendell Holmes debuted his poetry at the western Massachusetts property, which he built for $4,000 around 1847.

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Historic homes: A Berkshires retreat built by an American poet

By: Sarah Paynter

On Aug. 5, 1850, poet Oliver Wendell Holmes hiked a mountain in the Berkshires with a group that included future “Moby Dick” author Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne, the writer behind “The Scarlet Letter.”

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Historic homes: A Michigan cow farm built by a GM exec

By: Sarah Paynter

In the early 1990s, historic preservationist Sally Bund stood before about two dozen of her neighbors in the living room of her Ann Arbor, Mich., home.

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Crested Butte's luxury home market is defying a ski-town slowdown

By: Sarah Paynter

Before buying a second home in Colorado, Jim and Beth Stormont decided to put two mountain towns to the test.

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Historic homes: A sugar heir's 100-year-old Hawaii house

By: Sarah Paynter

On Kauai's southwestern coast, Sinclair Robinson's family owned a sprawling sugar plantation and several homes.