Purchase a failing 1930 concrete house designed by Barry Byrne (worked for Frank Lloyd Wright) for Oscar Levant (famous 1930 singer) and brought the house up to modern Passive House Institute standards. House is being certified by Passive House Academy out of Ireland.
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