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by Libby Demp Forrest GAPE MAY - Kim and Jeff Gibbons bought their 13-room mansion sight unseen white living 3,000 miles away in Germany. ‘‘We saw a picture of it and thought it would be a nice home to raise a family in," said Jeff as he played with Ned, 2»i. while Kim sped out a rear door to drive to a dental lab for a check on a patient's false teeth. "You’ll have to go around to the side entrance." Kim had apologized when giving directions to the Gibbons Perry St.. house. "We just had the front porch torn off.” EVENTUALLY, a new front porch will be built on the 1B31 house, but for now only the brick supports re-, main. In the back yard, a cement mixer stood ready, dlong with an upside down porcelain sink the Gibbons found in the crawl space. "We’re going to put it in the attic until we can restore it," Jeff said.. The Gibbons also found Victorian walnut wardrobeS, shutters, a petrified cat and a wooden ice box in perfect condition under the house. “You’d have to be a total pessimist and have no imagination not to In? able to work toward something, here," Jeff said as he sat in the livingroom, carved from an old parlor. THE THREE-STORY

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farm house had been cut up into four summer apartments over the years. Now, onlyva small rear apartment remains where the Gibbons' babysitter (Jeff’s sister, and her huaband) resides temporarily. “This is 13 rooms and dropping," Jeff said of the ctkiple’s plans to return thftoouse to the single-family iAydl< n K it once was whefr it was known as Mansion House. more than 150 years ago. While the exact age of the

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frame house is unknown, Jeff has researched old records that show the original property extended from Lyle Lane (formerly known as Mansion Street) to Cape'Island Creek. The property was gradually sub-divided. “The old deeds were vague,” said lawyer Gibbons, noting that the property line was often designated by a certain stone. “As the proper-

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A SUCCESSION of owners added innovations, including a huge front door with a false transom, floor to ceiling windows and a large porch during a period when the house was “Victoranized.” But, the small original front door stayed hidden under the latticed crawl space where Jeff and

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