Editor’s Note: This is the first of a two-part blog series. Lippitt House's full exterior masonry facade is being restored for the first time in its history. This massive undertaking involves repointing the exterior brickwork and repairing or replacing badly deteriorated brownstone trim. “Lippitt House and ‘The Brown Decades’: The Rise, Fall, and Endurance of Brownstone” explores brownstone as an important 19th-century building material and illustrates how the history of brow
