WHITMORE HOUSE
When Kathy Hendrickson first walked into her three-story Victorian home on 825 Seventh Street, she couldn’t believe her eyes. “I saw this unpainted original woodwork, and I was like, ‘This is amazing,’ ” she remembers.
In the latter part of the 20th century, she recounts, many homeowners began painting (and thus ruining) handcrafted details like woodwork, radiators, and stained glass, trying to
