| 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.
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What started out on three tables in their 24-by-24-foot basement has grown to include a 24-by-36-foot addition onto their home, just to fit the display. The new addition features 11 trains, nine bridges and 31 tunnels. The hobby started for Kenny Harrison when he was a young boy. The now 59-year-old continues to work and expand his train city, particularly in the last 15 years. Harrison has laid more than a half-mile of track throughout the basement of their South Mountain Road home. When the trains are running, Harrison stands on a wooden stage behind a cutout of a train car to control the 17 transformers for all 22 tracks. ‘‘It gets pretty loud in here with all the trains running," he said, adding that his hobby has made him new friends. ‘‘I’ve met an awful lot of nice people doing this." Each layout, which includes miniature buildings, people and cars, is not intended to be a rendition of a specific area but is something he creates from his mind.
Rare sisterhood of retail brings vibrancy to North Mississippi
Maybe it was only good timing that restaurateur Polly Bangs spied the "For Lease" signs last spring on North Mississippi Avenue and immediately called Jamie Jensen, a friend who sold clothes and jewelry out of a Saturday Market stall. "Get over here," Bangs said. Then Bangs called Sarah Shaoul, a friend of a friend who ran on online children's clothing shop, and said the same thing. Keiran Best walked into the building at the intersection of Shaver Street -- the very first space she checked out for her new shop, Porch Light Antiques -- and thought, "This is it." Best saw vibrant promise where not long ago the strip of North Mississippi languished with a weak economic pulse. The neighborhood, tucked just east of Interstate 5 and south of Alberta Street, was known more for crime and grime.
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