The house , finished in 1981 , was the new kid on the block but it fit right in . Its storybook stone veneer , projecting front wings and turret — modeled after a public library in Ogunquit , Maine — resembled other Tudor-style homes in the Freeman Plat neighborhood , a historic district painstakingly designed and curated by the Freeman family in the early twentieth century .
Once her house on Hazard Avenue was completed , Norma helped her daughters design their own homes — a process that , the sisters say , has helped them cope with the inevitable : selling their mother ’ s house following her death in 2016 .
“ It ’ s a house . What we lost was so much greater than that ,” Maceroni says . “ I ’ m heartbroken , but what are you going to do .”
In the fall , the family put the house on the market with Residential Properties for $ 1.095 million . It was under contract in one week . Everything happened so fast , Maceroni says , but Loomis wasn ’ t surprised someone fell for the place . Her mom was easy to love — stylish , smart , a Renaissance woman — and the house was her reflection in Venetian plaster , rough-sawn wood and stained glass .
“ She just had an artistic eye ,” Loomis says . �
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