| Boston antiques dealer is new owner of historic Kittery mansion
KITTERY, Maine -- After being on the market for 18 months, the Lady Pepperrell mansion has been sold to a Boston antiques dealer who hopes to restore the home to its former days of glory. French national Franois Bardonnet said he discovered the mansion on his way back to Boston after a trip into northern Maine. When he arrived in the city, Bardonnet looked up the listing on the Anne Erwin Sotheby's International Realty Web site and decided to take another look. It was at this showing where he said he saw the mansion's true potential. "It's sort of a house-museum kind of feel," Bardonnet said. "With my background, I can picture the house furnished with antiques ... I could foresee how beautiful it could become." Bardonnet is the proprietor of the Beacon Hill store Antiques Period, and this year was named one of Boston Globe's 25 Most Stylish People in Boston.
Coolidge Center serves 'provocative' dinner
The Coolidge Center for the Arts Gallery was magically transformed into an inviting five star restaurant and entertainment venue on Jan. 24. In the renovated 19th-century carriage house, 60 supporters enjoyed a lavish sit-down meal followed by J. Dennis Robinson's illustrated presentation, Bad Boys of Portsmouth. Attendees sat at large round tables formalized with blue and white linens and were served a three-course meal, compliments of Sodexho and Covey Run Wines. The gallery walls, usually bare during the winter season, assumed a warm domestic aura with a superior exhibition of fine art by the Coolidge Center studio faculty. Robinson, local historian and founding editor of SeacoastNH.com, regaled the sold-out room with stories of Portsmouth literati, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, James T.
Mangalore: Heritage Society to Document History of Buildings
Mangalore, Feb 7: With Mangalore being identified as a fast track city developing at a tremendous pace, the Mangalorean architectural tradition is being lost some where. The development of imposing edifices are bringing about indiscriminate change and demolition of antique buildings having immense heritage value. Wonder how the younger generation could even get a feel of those antique buildings. Here is Mangalore Heritage Programme, which was started in January 2007 as a non-profit, citizens initiative and envisaged with one goal in mind: preserve the hastily disappearing past of this region for the appreciation and education of the present and future generations. The programme aims to preserve these structures through images, photographs, architectural drawings and written documentation of its history.
SINGLE OWNER ESTATE AUCTION
We will be selling the contents of the estate of Ms. Eliz. Edwards of Manchester, VT Please check next week's paper or our website for full information and lots of photos.
SINGLE OWNER ESTATE AUCTION
SAT. JAN 13 2007 1 PM
SPECIAL SESSION 11 AM
Offering the contents of the Estate of Betsy Edwards, Manchester, VT. Highlights include: Eldred Wheeler cherry secretary; many period stands; selection antique mirrors; English mah. drop front desk; mahogany dining table and chairs; antique beds and dressers; antique lighting; good selection of porcelains including Oriental and English: Herend service for 12; Flow Blue; other transferware; tole trays; Oriental coal bin; pair brass lustres; Fred Millar print; other nice prints including C & I; nice selection candle sticks; please check website for pictures and catalog.
From $6 to $260000
Once upon a time, Spirit farmland was valued only by the crops it produced. Then an economic dynamo began churning out jobs, houses and money and the price of the land took off. EDITOR'S NOTE: This is part of an extended series about the development of a $1.5 billion suburban community. The stories began in 2004 with the final harvest on the historic Brandtjen Farm in Lakeville and will continue until the first residents move in to a house. Lyn Hunter stood on her land, the wind blowing in her red hair, and smiled. Only three years earlier, her one-third-acre lot had been farmland. It looked the same same dirt, same nearby lake, same oak trees. But she had paid more than 40 times its earlier value. And she was delighted. "It's worth it.
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