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Bob Vila's Latest Masterpiece: Inside the $12.5 Million Historic Palm Beach Home Purchase

Television personality Bob Vila, known for his work on "This Old House," and his wife Diana Barrett have recently purchased a historic home in Palm Beach for $12.5 million from renowned interior designer Leta Austin Foster and her husband Ridgely. The property, located at 345 Pendleton Lane in the heart of Midtown, was a part of the Foster family for nearly half a century.


The Fosters, who acquired the 1940s house for $180,000 in 1975, sold it through trusts in their names, as indicated by courthouse records. The house, a Georgian Revival-style residence, features five bedrooms and encompasses 5,340 square feet of both indoor and outdoor living space. Designed by the late John L. Volk, a prominent Palm Beach architect, the house is one of the original…

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