Nantucket -- Above is another home built by master mason Christopher Capen. He was no starchitect and lived in a rooming house with little more than his tools to his name while he built mansions for the rich who were trying to keep up with the Joneses.The Joneses in this case were the Coffin family and Capen built not only the Jared Coffin house in the previous slide, but two other brick homes at 75 and 78 Main Street. Capen built this house for Joseph Starbuck, one of three once identical homes which are today called...

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