Bertha Heathcote
Jim sold his company in 2013 and, after buying the Homan House shown here, decided to turn his hobby into a business. The company of highly skilled tradespeople selectively chooses important or endangered houses to restore and bring to market.
Correct in proportion and details, the new inset design is based on the entry of the General John Glover House.
The Homan House in Marblehead, Mass., is the first project of Fine Period Homes, founded by serial restorer Jim Laverdiere to turn his “hobby” of many years into a business. Every inch of this house on a main street in the old seacoast town needed restoration, repair, or reproduction—from structural members in the roof and basement to fine mouldings.
