These walls are more than drywall drilled to studs and covered with paint. The original hardwood floors aren’t just a tree cut down, planed, and polished 75 years ago. There is more here. The spaces between walls and above the floors have held magic. The floorboards creaked as I paced the living room, waiting for Carter to get home. He took an extra ten minutes at his event, but it felt like a week. He finally opened the noisy back door—it tended to stick due to having been p