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This Must Be the Place

of house that requires you to restore 90 leaded glass windows and replace a copper roof (twice) plus seven headless gargoyles, curious strangers tend to come knocking on the door. Such has been the experience at a Kenwood mansion owned by sculptor Melissa Weber and her husband, Jay Dandy, a research assistant at the Art Institute of Chicago. “One time a guy who worked for Reverend Clarence Cobbs, who lived here

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