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A Herald Exclusive; A home with many stories; Topsfield colonial is historic.(Real Estate)

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From: The Boston Herald
Date: 20011006
Author:Gehrman, Elizabeth

SPECIAL TO THE HERALD

"In our cities," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in an essay on beauty, "an ugly building is soon removed, and is never repeated, but any beautiful building is copied and improved upon, so that all masons and carpenters work to repeat and preserve the agreeable forms, whilst the ugly ones die out."

The home at 93 Main Street in Topsfield, which was built in 1733 by the poet's cousin, the Reverend John Emerson of the town's Congregational Church, is decidedly of the preferred variety. Called Woodbine on the Common, the house is an enormous center-entrance ...

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