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Future A Chapel Hill change agent renovates a 1965 prefab home, keeping its soul and story By J. M ic h ael Wel ton | Photography by J ohn Mi chael Si m pson
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hannon Tennyson is a change management consultant with a passion for design and architecture. Those were precisely the qualities needed to fulfill her role as the second owner of a 1965-era home on Franklin Street. She bought it in November 2020, sensing that it was no ordinary midcentury modern ranch. This one, she felt, was different. She was right. Thought by some to be a Sears kit home, it’s actually
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chapelhillmagazine.com
September/October 2021