Southern Lady

Grandeur Renewed

Though she’d never stepped foot inside, Beverly Farrington had been under the spell of an enchanting 1818 Dutch Colonial in Huntsville, Alabama, since the early 1980s. “It just always had this charm about it to me,” Beverly says. “It has this beautiful pergola on the side and sits on this beautiful tree-lined street.”

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