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    IN WITH THE OLD

    Dec 27, 2019 5 minutes
    By Deborah Baldwin
    Photographs by Gridley + Graves
    Produced by Nicole Esposito-Polly
    Styling by Janice Dunwoody

    And out with the mash-up of eras. An antiques lover restores authenticity to her 1820s Cape with vintage furniture, salvaged flooring, period-style trim, and paint colors that bring back its time-honored patina

    IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE what drove settlers to rural Maine in the 1800s. It couldn’t have been the weather.

    But all that cold and snow had an upside, says Pamela Haines, owner of a 19th-century Cape Cod–style house in the river town of Buxton. Houses like hers have an assortment of small rooms, the better to close off ones not worth heating, and that configuration can itself be a source of warmth. “Capes are just cozy,” she says. “Rooms tend to be small and separate, which I like.”

    A Buxton native and longtime

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