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AAUW’s Home Tour Features a Trio of Vastly Different Houses Saturday

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Doni Chamberlain

• Meet the residence of Gary and Lynn McCall: One 5,600-square-foot, solar-and-wind-powered straw bale house that took half a decade for a family to build; one of just a handful of North State straw bale homes, and an almost unheard-of example of a two-story… Continue Reading →

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