The old house is getting to be the new thing. From the state of Washington to the District of Columbia, young families are moving out of their ticky-tacky little boxes and into the kind of mansion that used to be the white elephant of the real-estate trade.
Real-estate men themselves are beginning to grab the vintage houses. One such is John Fell Stevenson (Adlai's son). With his wife (the daughter of one of America's best-known modern architects, Nathaniel Owings) and son, he rented one of San Francisco's porched and turreted antiques, which...
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