An Extended Family Pulls Together to Transform a Late ’70s House Near Philadelphia
For a modern renovation in Pennsylvania, everyone involved—clients, architect, builder, neighbors, even the previous owners—is part of one extended clan.
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Pickering Road runs through a quiet valley outside Philadelphia, winding past fields hemmed by rock walls, barns topped with weather vanes, and stoic stone houses. It’s about as idyllic a country road as you can imagine, and for the Stonorov-Churchill family, it’s a conduit that threads its way through history and memory.
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Georgina Gustin
As a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Georgina Gustin writes about food-related issues, among other topics. Her travels for "Plains Gold" took her to Kansas city, at the western edge of Missouri.
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