Valley Homes: Starting over: 21st-century living in an 18th-century home

By Cheryl Wilson Bulletin Contributing Writer

Published on February 15, 2008

GORDON DANIELS

This fireplace and beehive oven in the sitting room of the hilltop Belchertown home of Bill Pohl and Marilyn Toth, is one of three hearths remaining after a fire razed their 18th-century dream house a year after they'd bought it in 2000.