obert S. MacNeille, AIA, is design principal and president of Carpenter & MacNeille Architects and Builders, of Essex, Massachusetts. He immediately recognized the treasure before him: a carriage house designed in the Victorian Shingle Style by Peabody & Stearns. • Named for its waterfront setting on Boston’s North Shore, the structure was meant to house carriages, horses, and eventually automobiles; the original, drive-through building had been twice as
