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"\"I had majored in English literature in college and began my architectural career on a whim, thinking it would be a creative business that might offer better job opportunities than English lit. I designed and built my first house in Maine with a couple of my classmates. This was a time when we were pretending that we actually knew what we were doing!\"\n\nPinterestFacebookAppleton's first project in Maine. Photo: Marc Appleton\n\n\"The design was loosely influenced by Robert Venturi's work, of which I was then enamored. It looks terribly self-conscious to me now. Ah, the halcyon days of yore!\" \u2014Marc Appleton\n\nPinterestFacebookPinterestFacebookAnother view of the Maine home. Photo: Marc AppletonThe designer today. Photo: Matt Walla"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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