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Wayne Bell at door of Merrell House.
Photography by Michael Patrick
The biggest problem with living in a historic house is time not just coping with the natural aging process of an elderly build­ing but learning to live with architec­tural patterns that were made to fit the lifestyle of a different era.
Restoration architect Wayne Bell has had to deal with both problems in the ten years he has spent renovating his handsome 107-year-old Central Texas farmhouse. Located between Round Rock and Taylor, half an hour northeast of Austin, the historic Merrell House is a rough-hewn limestone building of pleasingly simple lines. Ex­cept where the Taylor highway marks the edge of the front yard, the setting is pastoral, much the way it might have been when the builder of the house, Captain Nelson Merrell, lived there. ....

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