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Not far from homes hundreds of years older, a modern house with the look of an antique Colonial has come up for sale in Newburyport’s North End. At 50 Spofford Street, the house is only blocks away from Moseley Woods park and Maudsley state park and is an easy walk to the Chain Bridge over the Merrimack River. Inside is a modern, open house with amenities to meet the needs of any family.

The openness of the house is striking from the front door. The staircase creates a two-story entry that is continued into the family room with its vaulted ceiling. Large windows and sliding-glass doors bring in light and provide views of the landscaped yard. With four bedrooms and an office, the house is well suited for a large family. It is listed for $739,000.

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High Street homes in Newburyport may offer more surprises than almost any city in America, but few homes serve up as good a surprise as the historic Gambrel-style Georgian Home at 346 High Street.

Built in 1780, the blue-painted Seaport Grande Dame, which faces Bresnahan School, was called the Bullard House and has retained many of the original features and design, including wide-planked flooring. The four-bedroom house was restored and expanded during a renovation in 2005 and 2006, adding modern plumbing and wiring and energy-efficient heating and air conditioning systems and windows.

With more than 3,500 square feet of living space, the three-story home is listed by Lea Cabeen with Keller Williams Realty for $975,000. It has been on the market for about a week.

Cabeen said: “This home is special even for High Street. It has a unique combination of an early American historical style and design with newer renovations and unusual decorations that bridge modern and antique.”

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The year the house at 434 Main Street in Amesbury was built the British were busy forcing King James II to flee the country in what historians call the Glorious Revolution of 1688. King William replaced him on the throne the same year.

By the time the colonists got around to having their own revolution in 1776, this 1,474-square-foot house on overlooking the Merrimack River Point Shore was almost 100 years old.

Today, the house is listed for sale at $399,900. It has many of its original features, coffered ceilings, oversized moldings, exposed beams and built-ins. There are two full bedrooms, plus a third room that might serve as a bedroom, and two full baths, one on each floor.

Read more: Amesbury antique features river views

Did you ever wish as a child that your family would rent an oceanfront cottage? One right on the beach where you could run around all day with your friends, ducking in and out of the water or building sand castles? It would have been a place where sand on the floor was expected instead of a punishable offense.

It would have been in a small community where everyone watched out for each other and their kids, so you could come and go as you pleased. It would have been the kind of place where you could throw your towel over the railing of the deck to dry in the summer breezes, and run inside to see what snacks were in the fridge.

Read more: Private beachfront on Plum Island