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Everything old is new again at Historical Replications: career path diverges for college English major.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 21-MAR-05 		Format: Online - approximately 1150 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Cecilia Reese Bullock was an English major in college. But when it came time to enter the business world, she chose to pursue a career following her great love for historic homes.

Bullock grew up on a dairy farm in a home that was more than 100 years old. A native of Mississippi, she started building houses in Atlanta in 1976. But she couldn't find house plans that looked like the old homes she loves so much.

"When I started building, I wanted to build new houses that looked like old houses," said Bullock, who is owner of Historical Replications (www.historicaldesigns.com). "But I couldn't find any house plans like that. At the time I wondered if I was only person out there who wanted to build a new house that looked like an old house."

She was asked to build a house for the Atlanta Parade of Homes in 1979. She built an exact replica of an 1855 Georgia Plantation Plain home.

"It was the hit of the parade," Bullock recalls....

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