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    RADICAL RESTORATION

    Oct 29, 2019 2 minutes
    BY BRIAN D. COLEMAN
    PHOTOGRAPHS BY WILLIAM WRIGHT

    Jerod Fitzgerald grew up learning about carpentry. The restoration bug didn’t hit him, though, until he met his wife, Maria—a real-estate agent with an eye for neglected, historic houses with potential. When the couple found the 1913 Craftsman in Portland’s Irvington neighborhood, a National Register Historic District, they were thrilled. With two full storeys, it had four bedrooms and a generous attic,

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