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Bungalow beauty IN TEXAS

EAMED CEILINGS, dark-stained woodwork—and a feeling you’ve stepped back 100 years: that’s a visitor’s first impression of this beautifully appointed bungalow, home to Michael and Stan Tucker–McDermott. Built ca. 1910, the semi-bungalow with an expansive second-storey dormer is in Fort Worth’s Fairmount National Historic District. When the couple bought the house in 2017, they’d been living a few blocks away in a late-Victorian house lovingly restored by Michael; he’d called it home for almost 25 years. • They purchased the bungalow

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