Old House Journal

SHOW HOUSE then & now

THE 1915 HOME in the Irvington neighborhood was a showcase for local builder H.E. Stinson. He located it at the last stop on the trolley line. For the exterior, Stinson picked up modern motifs of the Prairie School style. Inside was a different story: While casings have simple Arts & Crafts construction, cornices are heavily three-dimensional, and fireplace mantels feature dentil mouldings and columns.

A century later, Nikki Neuburger and David Schriber were feeling cramped in a small Irvington home, where the couple and David’s two children shared an inconvenient single bathroom upstairs. “I had plans

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