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    Early 20th-Century Room

    Jun 11, 2019 2 minutes
    By Donna Pizzi

    his re-created kitchen is the centerpiece of a 1908 house in Portland, Oregon. Outside, the grand portico, formal window bays, and fully developed neoclassical detailing were intact. Inside, the Arts & Crafts interior told a different story: the house was kindly described as “a fixer-upper.” So

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