Old House Journal

A HOUSE ABANDONED, now healed

"I WAS IN AND OUT of all sorts of places, and nothing struck my fancy,” says “I was Sallie Dunham–Davis. “But this house became a labor of love, a project of healing for me.” She’d begun house hunting after going through a divorce.

This house, with about 1400 square feet, was built in 1804 in

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